Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken another step in his war on liberal prosecutors, moving against an Orlando-area prosecutor after the shooting deaths on Feb. 22 of three people, including a 9-year-old girl.
A 19-year-old man on juvenile felony probation pleaded not guilty on Feb. 24 to an initial count of first-degree murder.
Keith Moses was subsequently charged on Feb. 28 with two more counts of first-degree murder.
DeSantis’s counsel Ryan Newman requested that Monique Worrell, state attorney for Florida’s 9th Judicial Circuit covering Orange and Osceola counties, turn over records on Moses.
Moses had been arrested in November 2021 for possession of a small amount of marijuana and released. Newman argued that it was a probation violation, that he and two co-defendants had long criminal records, and that their arrests might have sustained more severe charges….