Face-to-Face in The Race To Clean-Up The Troubled Maricopa County Prosecutor Office

 Just some snippets from a recent investigativ reports appearing in The Phoenix New Times last week. There's always so much more to read! So catch up with these when you can The Maricopa County Attorney's Office is one of the largest prosecutorial agencies in the nation, handling tens of thousands of criminal cases a year. It has a storied history of corruption and scandal.

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A longtime insider versus a longtime critic. Now that the primaries are over, this is shaping up to be the race for Maricopa County's top prosecutor.

Current Interim County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, who has spent her career in the highest reaches of the office, was winning the Republican primary easily over opponent Gina Godbehere in early returns. If those results hold with the remaining 20 percent of the uncounted ballots, Mitchell will face Julie Gunnigle, a Democrat and harsh critic of Mitchell and the office she runs.

Mitchell has spent her career at MCAO, working for a time as Montgomery's second-in-command. She's used her experience there as proof that she can right the ship.

Gunnigle, for her part, has tried to paint Mitchell's insider status a liability. "Twenty-five years in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office is frankly disqualifying," Gunnigle told Phoenix New Times in April.