TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — On the first day of the trial in which ousted Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren is trying to get his job back, a top official for Gov. Ron DeSantis testified that he did a thorough job figuring out that Warren was a troublingly progressive prosecutor who was “hostile and antagonistic” to law enforcement and needed to be booted from office.
On Wednesday morning, however, Warren’s attorneys pounced during their cross-examination of “public safety czar” Larry Keefe to point out holes and omissions in his research, including the fact that outside of the Orange County sheriff, he talked to only Republicans while doing his research on DeSantis’ behalf.
The questioning at one point prompted U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle to ask Keefe: “You can’t give me the name of a single Democrat you talked to besides the sheriff of Orange County?”
