A case filed by Alameda County’s top prosecutor against one of her former employees will move forward after a judge’s ruling Friday.
Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford, right, speaks at a rally in front of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse on Monday, April 10, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. The rally was held in part due to Alameda County’s new district attorney Pamela Price’s handling of the death of Jasper Wu, a two-year-old shot and killed on an Oakland freeway in 2021.
Ford — now a prosecutor with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office — could be disbarred if convicted of defending after public prosecution as the prosecutor, a seldom-used line of the state’s business and professions code aimed at rooting out corruption. He pleaded not guilty moments after the judge’s ruling Friday, and remains free on his own recognizance.
Price alleges Ford broke the state’s business and professions code in April, when he filed a declaration supporting an East Bay attorney’s unsuccessful bid to disqualify Price from the case of Jason Fletcher. Fletcher, a former San Leandro police officer, faces a manslaughter charge in the 2020 on-duty shooting death of Steven Taylor. A month after filing the declaration, Ford resigned to work for San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
Left unsettled Friday was whether Ford would be booked on the charge, a process which includes having a mug shot and fingerprints taken at the Santa Rita Jail.
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