The Starr County district attorney dropped the improper charges, but the fallout “forever changed the Plaintiff’s life,” a new federal lawsuit says.
A woman is suing the Starr County district attorney in South Texas after he charged with her murder following an abortion. The charges were dropped.
Gonzalez is suing Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez and Assistant District Attorney Alexandria Lynn Barrera for more than $1 million. Prosecutors typically havebut the lawsuit alleges Ramirez and Barrera waived that when they undertook the investigation of this case and misled the grand jury.and the state’s near-total ban on abortion.
The lawsuit says Gonzalez is bringing this suit to vindicate her constitutional rights, and “to hold accountable the government officials who violated them.”When Gonzalez was first arrested in April 2022, few details were made public. This new lawsuit offers additional insight into the timeline of events that led to her arrest.
At some point between those January visits and late March 2022, the lawsuit says, employees of Starr County Memorial Hospital told the Starr County District Attorney’s Office about Gonzalez’s attempted abortion. The allegations were investigated directly by Ramirez’s office, not the sheriff or the local police department, according to the filing.
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