Several Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers have come under fire for allegedly circulating a mock Valentine’s Day card with George Floyd’s image o
On Monday morning, February 8, Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant issued his ruling on the legal filing by the LA Association of Deputy District Attorneys in which the local DA’s union asked Judge Chalfant to slap down Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s reform-minded “directives,” most particularly the DA’s directive that instructs all the prosecutors who now work for him to stop using “sentencing enhancements,” with a very few exceptions.
Sentencing enhancements, as readers may remember, are sentencing add-ons like the California STEP Act (which can lengthen a sentence if the defendant is believed to part of a street gang), 10-20-life (which drastically lengthens sentences if a gun is involved, even if the defendant never held or fired the gun and didn’t commit the underlying crime, but was present), plus other sentencing strategies that can pile on years or decades, to someone’s prison term, in excess of what the range of sentences that the
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Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón will not be able to implement some of his radical “criminal justice reform” policies after a judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday barring him from doing so.
As Fox 11 KTTV reported: “Judge James Chalfant’s injunction will restrict Gascón from refusing to prosecute California’s three strikes law and will restrict him from dismissing special circumstance allegations without legal grounds.”
As Breitbart News noted last month, Gascón took office after defeating incumbent Jackie Lacey, the first black woman to hold the job. The Black Lives Matter movement portrayed her as insufficiently sensitive to its concerns about police and prosecution. Gascón was heavily funded by left-wing billionaire mega-donor George Soros, one of several “progressive” prosecutors he backed.
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