Sarah Fenske & Paul Rubin

An estimated 300 people turned out to protest the reign of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas in front of the county courthouse today -- at least two-thirds of them local attorneys.The noon rally was a surprising show of strength from a profession that generally prefers filing motions to openly agitating...

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas this afternoon struggled to explain his decision to charge the county's presiding criminal court judge, Gary Donahoe, with three felony counts --bribery, obstructing a criminal investigation, and hindering prosecution.But Thomas couldn't offer any evidence to the assembled media scrum that Donahoe actually had accepted a...