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LA’s district attorney says he wasn’t aware people who ‘did not have enough education to keep their mouths shut’ are family of murder victim
Posted at 1:36 pm on December 19, 2020 by Doug P.
As we told you earlier this month, when George Gascón was inaugurated as Los Angeles County’s new district attorney he immediately made clear his intent to follow through on promises to bring radical changes to the county’s justice system:
NEW: L.A. s new District Attorney George Gascon being inaugurated & making major announcements today.
No more death penalty, an end to cash bail, getting rid of all sentencing enhancements (gang, three strikes, etc), disbanding of the special circumstances committee (1/2) @FOXLA
LA County DA George Gascon s sentencing policies questioned by crime victims families
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) More than three decades ago in Agoura Hills, Enid Antero s 6-year-old little brother was murdered. She relives that day often. That day he never made it home. He had been abducted, beaten, raped, sodomized and stabbed to death, Enid said.
Up until five years ago, Miguel Antero s brutal killing was a cold case.
A suspect is now in custody. But a new ruling from new L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon is affecting the case.
L.A. County DA George Gascon s new policies are being criticized by former prosecutors and some family members of crime victims.
Jon Hatami, Los Angeles deputy district attorney, pushes back against LA DA s new directive reducing sentences for violent crimes.
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, who rose to prominence as the lead prosecutor in the Gabriel Fernandez case, told Fox & Friends the newly elected D.A. s directives are not supported by his own prosecutors or the citizens who voted for him.
New District Attorney George Gascon is facing backlash for his extreme liberal policies, including ending cash bail and the death penalty, as well as lessening charges against those accused of violent crimes including child rapists and murderers.
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The people of California are fortunate that Cara Marie Kirk-Connell’s fraud through the Employment Development Department is a federal offense. If Kirk-Connell had committed her crimes solely in L.A. County, the progressive District Attorney George Gascon would probably have coddled her and treated her as a poor victim of an unjust legal system. It would be pointed out that she was doing everyone a favor in exposing weaknesses and inequality of the so-called safety net, as well as the justice system.
Kirk-Connell was charged in October with identity theft, mail fraud, and access device fraud to illegally obtain unemployment and enhanced COVID-19 benefits. She was one of the first mud tracks to what we now know is a raging river of corruption. So, while she is the tip of the spear, so to speak, she should be no less culpable. With the wire fraud and the robbery of federal COVID relief funds, she crossed the Rubicon and is now looking towards some quality
Gascon said people will still be prosecuted for the underlying crimes, but those convicted would likely serve far less time in prison once the enhancements that can add years for things like prior convictions, hate motivation, gang involvement, or the use of guns, are dismissed.
“To believe for a moment that we are going to fix all of the social problems by putting people in a concrete box, is so wrong,” he said.
Gascon said any exceptions would, “swallow the rule,” and reiterated that he felt sentencing enhancements were most to blame for the state’s swelling prison population.
Since he was sworn in Dec. 7, many families of murder victims have told NBC4 they received calls from the District Attorney’s Office advising them that the enhancements would be dismissed, prosecutors would no longer seek sentences of life in prison without parole or death, and it was probable that the person charged with their loved one’s death would spend much less time in prison if convict