A prosecutor who went public with allegations that the district attorney had covered up a political corruption probe has no First Amendment protection because his comments were made in his official capacity, a Western District judge has held.
Chief Judge William Skretny (See Profile) yesterday dismissed a complaint that Mark Sacha, an assistant Erie County district attorney for 22 years and the office’s chief public corruption prosecutor for a decade, brought against District Attorney Frank Sedita III.
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