Jack Dunphy
Dec 14, 2020 10:20 PM ET
The cumulative effect of these policies will be threefold: fewer criminals will be sent to jail or prison; those who are imprisoned will serve shorter sentences; and many already convicted and behind bars will be released years before they might have been. Even some inmates now serving life without parole for murder will be allowed to petition for resentencing and even release under Gascón’s new guidelines.
In keeping with the Orwellian manipulation of the language so drearily common to the modern leftist, certain words will be excised from the vernacular of the courthouse in Los Angeles County. “Today,” begins Gascón’s Special Directive on Resentencing, “California prisons are filled with human beings charged, convicted and sentenced under prior District Attorneys’ policies.”
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In this Oct. 1, 2020, file photo, former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon speaks at a Los Angeles County Democratic Party news conference outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Gascon was sworn in Monday, Dec. 7, as the . more >ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The 2020 general election is obviously going to have repercussions for years. And I’m not speaking just of the presidential race, but due to the apparent awakening of many in deep blue areas, like California. In many parts of that state, blue seats flipped to red, signaling a rejection of what the Democrats were doing to those communities and nationwide.