Ex-DA Slams Successor for Tossing Rape Case Against Dr. Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley
Current Orange County DA Todd Spitzer said his predecessor, Tony Rackauckas, manufactured the case against the doctor and his girlfriend.
The former California district attorney who charged a celebrity surgeon and his girlfriend with drugging and raping a string of women is blasting his successor for dropping the case. Tony Rackauckas said in a statement Thursday that current Orange County DA Todd Spitzer was wrong to allege he “manufactured” the headline-grabbing case against Dr. Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley to help his re-election campaign. “I know some of the Jane Does [accusers] are scared, devastated and upset that this case was dismissed without even talking to them,” Rackauckas said. Rackauckas at one point intimated there might be hundreds of sexual-assault victims in the case. Robicheaux and Riley had insisted they were swingers and that any sexual contact was consensual.
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