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Vice President Kamala Harris has a history of inflating her record as a California prosecutor, using it to propel her political career.
Harris has pinned her election argument on her experience as a prosecutor, promising the American people that she will hold former President Donald Trump accountable.
'I was an elected attorney general and an elected district attorney. And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor,' Harris says on the campaign trail in her stump speech.
'So, in those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds … so hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump's type.'
But new scrutiny of her resume as a district attorney in liberal California is casting doubt on some of her most touted claims.
Kamala Harris has artificially inflated her political record on several occasions
As district attorney of San Francisco, Harris participated in a 2005 splash on the Oprah Winfrey show that promoted her as a rising politician for voters to watch.
'With a 90 percent conviction rate, superstar prosecutor Kamala Harris made history when she was elected California's first African American female district attorney,' Oprah Winfrey boasted.
That stunning statistic looked good on Harris' resume, but it was not completely true.
The '90 percent conviction rate' that Harris boasted about was only her office's record on homicide cases, , not all criminal cases, a detail that Harris and her team did not correct.
Part of the reason why Harris' conviction rate for homicide cases were so high was her decision to dismiss many cases or cut a deal with criminals with reduced charges.
According to disgruntled police detectives, their cases were getting dismissed at an alarming rate by Harris.
They also complained about Harris' many plea deals she secured alongside public defenders.
At the time, the San Francisco Chronicle reported an unusual case of a man who confessed to killing his mother while he was on crack-cocaine, hitting her with a hammer and then stabbing her with scissors.
Under Harris, prosecutors cut a deal with the defense after his attorney argued the man had a history of mental illness.
He was allowed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for a much less 12 year prison sentence than he would have been slapped with if convicted in court.
Some police in San Francisco even took the unusual step of taking gang related homicide cases directly to federal prosecutors.
That way, a federal grand jury could hand down a criminal indictment, ensuring that their hard-worked cases would be rigorously prosecuted.
It happened on at least seven occasions with homicide cases Harris was working according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Despite her efforts to inflate her conviction rates, Harris' record as district attorney looked alarmingly bad as she prepared her campaign for Attorney General of California.
San Francisco Weekly reported in 2010 that Harris had won only 55 percent of murder trials since the beginning of 2009, and that in the first quarter of 2010 her office’s conviction rate for all felony trials was only 53 percent. Her record paled in contrast with the statewide average for prosecutors, which was 83 percent.
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris poses for a portrait
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic National Convention
Harris is not a stranger to inflating her resume to look good for her political campaigns.
In 2003, as she ran for District Attorney of San Francisco, Harris sent out political mailers saying she tried 'hundreds' of serious and violent felonies as a criminal prosecutor.
That turned out to be false, as Harris admitted during a debate with her campaign opponents that she only tried 'about 50 cases,' according to audio of the debate uncovered by ABC News on Thursday.
The Harris campaign clarified that Harris was 'involved' in the prosecution of hundreds of crimes.
Her campaign spokesperson James Singer told ABC News: 'For more than a decade, she prosecuted child sexual assault cases, homicides, and robberies in Alameda, before overseeing the career criminal unit and served as the head of division on families and children in the San Francisco District Attorney's office.'