When Stanislaus County Deputy District Attorney Thane Nored got the news, he was sitting in court. An email from the California District Attorneys Association had landed in his inbox, letting him know he’d been named Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year for 2025 in the category of rural/medium county.
“I was floored,” Nored said. “Truly humbled and honored. I didn’t even know I was going to be nominated. It completely came out of the blue.”
The recognition followed a grueling eight-month capital trial that consumed much of 2024: the case of Richard Tyrone Garcia, a Ceres man convicted of a 2012 triple homicide…