Kamala Harris says she spent her entire career in the trenches but how many cases has she actually prosecuted?

How many cases has Kamala Harris actually prosecuted in a courtroom?Despite her profile on the California Attorney General website stating she spent her “entire career in the trenches as a courtroom prosecutor,” the only available evidence shows her trying between seven and 15 felonies.They include a domestic violence scalping, one murder, armed robbery and two child sex crimes – though she claims to have taken hundreds of cases to court.No records are available from any of those cases, and the only one to have made the news was the 1996 scalping case.Harris started her career in Alameda County, where she was born, in 1989.In her book “The Truths We Hold” she described being crushed about how she had failed the bar and might not be accepted into the department, but they allowed her to continue working with them until she did finally pass in 1990.She was then an assistant district attorney in Alameda from 1990 to 1998 before moving across the bay to fulfil the same role in the San Francisco district attorney’s office.The Alameda County DA’s office sent The Post a list of more than 60 names they said Harris had prosecuted during her time there.

However, they provided no further details of any of the cases such as if they were traffic tickets or serious felonies, or if she had personally tried them in the courtroom.A 2003 article by the San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper titled “Kamala Harris has a perfectly credible record.So why does she have to exaggerate it?” quoted a source in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office who claimed she tried “roughly 5 to 10 felonies” there and only two more in San Francisco.Harris rapidly rose through the ranks, successfully running for DA in San Francisco in 2003.By that time she was billed as a “veteran” prosecutor with “thirteen years of courtroom experience” who could overhaul the office.“Kamala has tried hundreds of serious and violent felonies, including homicide, rape, and chil...