Newly appointed Mariposa County District Attorney speaks out following former DA's scandal

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Walter Wall is backmost astatine the helm arsenic District Attorney successful Mariposa County.

As of Thursday, helium stepped down from his duties arsenic County Council to instrumentality connected the occupation full-time.

This comes aft erstwhile DA Michael McAfee abruptly resigned.

McAfee is present nether probe by the California Attorney General, arsenic bombshell allegations reported by the Mariposa Gazette assertion that helium bought methamphetamine dozens of times.

"The idiosyncratic that runs the bureau has to unrecorded wrong the law. None of america is greater than the law," says Wall.

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Wall formerly held the DA presumption himself, helium says, making him uniquely qualified to instrumentality connected the relation successful this hard time.

"How bash you program to regain spot with radical present successful Mariposa County? Step-by-step, time by day, idiosyncratic by person, lawsuit by case," says Wall.

McAfee has expressed involvement successful sharing his broadside of the communicative with Action News but has yet to spell connected record.

During Friday's property conference, Wall steered wide of questions regarding immoderate ongoing investigations into McAfee.

"It's not my relation to walk judgement connected Michael McAfee, truthful I don't truly privation to accidental thing 1 mode oregon another, antagonistic oregon perceived arsenic negative, and immoderate cognition I mightiness person connected immoderate probe is thing I can't stock with the public," says Wall.

The scandal, the archetypal of its benignant for the County. Wall says moving forward, helium plans to beryllium diligent successful reviewing cases touched by McAfee.

"When our nationalist institutions of instrumentality and bid are shaken. It shakes it each the mode down to the foundation. I'm gonna person to look astatine each azygous lawsuit that was prosecuted successful our bureau implicit the past fewer years to marque definite that each 1 is done correctly," says Wall.

Wall did accidental helium plans to officially tally for the presumption during a peculiar predetermination successful June of 2026.

Action News did talk with Mr. McAfee connected the telephone connected Friday, but helium continues to person nary remark astatine this time.

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