Bucks DA announces run for full term
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub announced that he would seek election to a full term in November. Weintraub, who was appointed to the post in the fall after former District Attorney David Heckler retired midway through his term, said he hoped to continue the work he has begun.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub announced that he would seek election to a full term in November.
Weintraub, who was appointed to the post in the fall after former District Attorney David Heckler retired midway through his term, said he hoped to continue the work he has begun.
"Many of the victims and the people that walk through these doors never, ever expected to be in the situation that they find themselves in, and it is up to us to try to be their voice and to speak for them," Weintraub said, speaking in front of the county courthouse on a frigid morning, a group of lawyers and Bucks County notables behind him. "We'll fight for justice for them no matter what the odds."
First Assistant District Attorney Michelle Henry, a former Bucks County district attorney and the incoming deputy attorney general, said Weintraub had the right vision for the office.
"I really just can't say enough about Matt. He is a top-notch prosecutor in every sense of the word," she said.
Weintraub, 48, first joined the Bucks County District Attorney's Office as an intern in 1992, then went on to work as a prosecutor in Bucks, Lehigh and Cape May Counties.
Weintraub was chief of prosecution under Heckler. He has worked to implement programs that include a drug take-back, a DUI task force, a domestic-violence investigation program, and digital data management.
Heckler, too, gave his endorsement Tuesday.
"I would not have left if I were not 100 percent confident that Matt is the total package," he said.
Since taking the helm in the fall, Weintraub has led the prosecution in such high-profile cases as Lee Kaplan's alleged sexual assault of 11 girls with whom he lived in his Feasterville home and the rape-murder of 14-year-old Grace Packer.
"My office is an important symbol of justice," Weintraub, a Republican, said Tuesday. "I wake up every day feeling this awesome responsibility, the sense that I carry the weight of justice and trying to get this right every day on my shoulders."
No Democrats have announced their candidacy for the job.
610-313-8205
@McDanielJustine