OAKLAND — The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office plans to subpoena its own former prosecutors over their handling of the case against Jason Fletcher, the former San Leandro police officer charged with manslaughter in the 2020 death of Steven Taylor.

The plan — aired by the head of the office’s Public Integrity Division during a hearing Friday morning — could lead to the unusual prospect of sitting prosecutors questioning their own former colleagues over multiple alleged misdeeds. The subpoenas would likely target Zachary Linowitz, who previously oversaw the case under former District Attorney Pamela Price, as well as a colleague, James Conger, according to court testimony.

It all comes as a judge weighs a request by Fletcher’s attorneys to dismiss the case, amid claims that Linowi

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