Gabrielle LeDoux confers with defense attorney Kevin Fitzgerald, who is seated, during her trial on Nov. 27, 2024, in the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/Alaska Beacon)
An Alaska Superior Court Judge has set a new trial date for former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage.
LeDoux, who was accused of elections misconduct in 2020, will face trial in June, according to an order signed Feb. 24 by judges Catherine Easter and Thomas Matthews. A preliminary hearing will take place May 5.
The state’s case against the Anchorage Republican has been repeatedly delayed — first by the COVID-19 pandemic emergency and then by procedural issues.
It reached trial in 2024, but that ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked on all 12 counts facing LeDoux. Jurors were unable to decide whether LeDoux had illegally tried to convince people to vote in her district despite knowing they lived outside her district.
Two of LeDoux’s former associates, Lisa Simpson and Simpson’s son Caden Vaught, reached plea deals with prosecutors and testified against the former legislator.
Since the mistrial, prosecutors and the defense have been arguing about the proper language of jury instructions for the next trial. Judge Josie Garton issued an order on that issue on Feb. 17, clearing the way for the trial to proceed.
LeDoux represented Kodiak in the Alaska House from 2005 to 2009 and an Anchorage district from 2013 to 2021.
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