Posted: Jun 2, 2026 / 06:06 PM PDT Updated: Jun 2, 2026 / 06:08 PM PDT BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — For nearly three decades, he was the fist of reckoning. The agent of legal accountability. The most aggressive prosecutor in California, bar none, and the longest serving. Now Ed Jagels, the Kern County District Attorney through some of Bakersfield’s most trying and controversial years, is a potential defendant.