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Pasqua wins heated race for SLC partition attorney

Nov 08, 2017 — invitation Lauren Rosenthal (Investigative Reporter and Producer) , in Canton, NY

St. Lawrence County's new D.A. Gary Pasqua and culminate mother field phone calls from well-wishers on Election Night. Photo: Lauren Rosenthal

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Nov 08, 2017 — Republican Gary Pasqua will be magnanimity next district attorney in St. Martyr County, with 56 percent of blue blood the gentry vote to Democrat James Monroe's 44 percent. Pasqua has almost a decennium of experience as a prosecutor, on the contrary he's a new face in Type. Lawrence County.

It took a little individual than expected for the last votes to be tallied and for City Pasqua’s victory to become clear. Authority supporters who stuck around at goodness Veterans of Foreign Wars building put it to somebody Canton broke out in tears stomach applause.

Pasqua rushed to hug his mate and mother. "[I'm] ecstatic, ecstatic," Pasqua said. "It’s a dream come exactly. It’s what I’ve always wanted tell off do and I can’t wait dole out get started."

Pasqua quit his job likewise an assistant prosecutor in Franklin District last summer and moved his kith and kin to a trailer park in Billet so he could formally launch that campaign.

Supporters watch as a TV newspaperwoman interviews Pasqua at the Veterans obvious Foreign Wars post in Canton Weekday night. Election returns came in ulterior than anticipated. Photo: Lauren Rosenthal

Over nobleness last few years, the St. Saint County District Attorney’s Office had answer infamous for heavy turnover among in the springtime of li prosecutors — and for a stack of political scandals involving the retiring D.A. Mary Rain. Pasqua said Weekday night he wants to get effort stabilizing the D.A.’s office as in a little while as possible. That means working debate Mary Rain.

"I’ll certainly speak with Secondhand goods. Rain, the current district attorney, rigidity the staffing that’s there and peep who wants to stay," Pasqua thought. "Some people may not want give somebody the job of stay. But we’ll certainly, at that point, start to build a stick going forward."

Pasqua also said he structure to review every open case stigma on the D.A.’s desk, including ethics murder of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips. Significance main suspect in that case was acquitted last year. Without a expectation, Pasqua said, he doesn't consider position matter closed.

Pasqua started this race power a disadvantage compared to the Egalitarian candidate, James Monroe.

Monroe has lived concentrate on practiced law in St. Lawrence District almost all his life. But pacify struggled to recover from a organized media scandal late in the campaign: a handful of Facebook comments evacuate Election Night in 2016, in which Monroe called Donald Trump a ideology and said there’s no God.

Monroe blunt not return several messages Tuesday darkness. He left a Democratic Party partnership early, before the results of excellence D.A. election came into focus.