It was 2010. Apple had introduced its first iPad to the public. Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks released documents on the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The BP oil spill leaked over 3 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. And Kamala Harris was the top prosecutor in San Francisco — where a scandal involving a crime lab threw her office into chaos and was a public embarrassment for the soon-to-be California attorney general.
The scandal, which culminated in a former police crime lab technician pleading no contest to a misdemeanor cocaine possession charge later expunged from her record and Harris dismissing roughly 1,000 drug-related cases, will likely be thrust back into the public eye now that Harris is the 2024 presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Harris, who would head to the U.S. Senate and be handpicked in 2020 to be Joe Biden’s running mate, will likely face off in November against former President Donald Trump — a development that comes on the heels of Democrats pledging support to Harris after Biden’s decision not to seek reelection and endorse the vice president.
