DeSantis suspends Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell

DeSantis previously suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren last year.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended a top prosecutor in Central Florida on Wednesday, accusing her of failing to impose mandatory sentences for gun and drug crimes and allowing juveniles to avoid incarceration.

In an impromptu announcement in Tallahassee, DeSantis said he was suspending Monique Worrell, the elected state attorney in Orange and Osceola counties. The decision marks the second time DeSantis has suspended a prosecutor from office.

“Prosecutors do have a certain amount of discretion about what cases to bring and which cases to not,” DeSantis said. “But what this state attorney has done is abuse that discretion and effectively nullified certain laws in the state of Florida that breaches her duties that she owes to the people of Florida under our state constitution, and provides the basis for the suspension.”

The decision to remove Worrell from office comes almost exactly a year after DeSantis suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren. Warren challenged that suspension, and a federal judge deemed that while DeSantis did violate the state Constitution when he suspended him, the judge said he did not have the ability to reinstate Warren.

It also comes as DeSantis, a presidential candidate, makes his stance on crime a key focus of his campaign.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/08/09/desantis-suspends-monique-worrell-state-attorney-prosecutor/

Since DeSantis can do no right, there's gotta be more to the story for him to dismiss an elected black female State Attorney.