California district attorney candidate allegedly ‘hit on’ participants in cases he prosecuted

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Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer

A liberal attorney trying to unseat the district attorney in conservative Orange County is accused of trying to date participants in criminal cases he prosecuted while working in the DA’s office six years ago, a document shows.

Candidate Peter Hardin, who claims to have support from a Black Lives Matter-affiliated political action committee, is a “womanizer” who asked a defendant out on a date after dismissing a case against her involving domestic violence against her boyfriend, according to an internal memo obtained by the Washington Examiner.

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