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Hello, and welcome to True Crime Daily's The Sidebar.

Taking you inside the courtrooms and trials of high profile and notorious cases from across the

country, I'm your host, Joshua Ritter. Currently a criminal defense lawyer based here in Los Angeles.

Previously, I was a prosecutor with the L.A. District Attorney's Office for close to a decade.

We're recording this on Monday, October 18th, 2021.

We get questions every week from you, the listeners and viewers about legal and criminal

justice topics. So this week we're going to address your comments. It's time to approach the

bench and ask a lawyer. And we're joined by Eric Sadal, a career prosecutor with Los Angeles

District Attorney's Office, who is also cross designated as a federal prosecutor with the U.S.

Attorney's Office. Welcome, Eric. Good afternoon.

Eric Sadal is also vice president of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys,

the collective bargaining agent representing nearly 1,000 deputy district attorneys

who work for the County of Los Angeles. Eric, kick us off and tell us a little bit about the ADDA

and its mission. Okay. Well, the ADDA represents the Lyme prosecutors in the Los Angeles County District

Attorney's Office, where the largest local prosecutorial agency in the country, probably in the

world. We handle all the felonies and some of the misdemeanors that have to do with state law

in Los Angeles County. As you know, L.A. is about 10 million people. It's larger than about 40 states.

So we have everything from petty theft to to multiple murders that we handle. And that's something

that I don't think a lot of folks really appreciate. And I remember them drilling that into us when

I was in the office is that how huge this prosecutor's office is, really. That it handles hundreds

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