With Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker set to go to trial next week on criminal charges of leaking a confidential civil grand jury report and lying about it, his defense team is pointing the finger squarely at one of his biggest political adversaries as the real culprit: Mayor Lisa Gillmor.
Becker’s legal strategy is laid bare in hundreds of pages of court documents reviewed by this news organization, with his attorneys arguing that he’s being selectively prosecuted.
Becker...