Gascon s spokesman acknowledged the union action but declined to comment, referring questions to the LA County Counsel s Office.
Almost simultaneously an unsolicited statement was sent to reporters by the UC Berkeley Law School s Three Strikes Project that said, We are confident this attempt to obstruct the will of the voters will be struck down.
The Berkeley statement, quoting law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky and director of the Three Strikes Project Michael Romano, said that DA Association s action shows it has a longstanding opposition to reform. DA Gascon s policies will enhance health and safety in Los Angeles and begin a much needed process to reduce epidemic levels of mass incarceration, the statement said.
By City News Service
Dec 30, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 29-year-old inmate who left a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles without permission a week ago was apprehended today.
Authorities realized on Dec. 22 about 7:50 p.m. that Jones Booker, who was serving a nearly three-year sentence for burglary, had walked away from the community reentry facility where he had been housed for about a month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Agents from specialized units within the department, along with help from the Long Beach Police Department, apprehended Booker in the Hyde Park area around noon Tuesday, authorities said.
By City News Service
Dec 30, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 29-year-old inmate who left a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles without permission a week ago was apprehended today.
Authorities realized on Dec. 22 about 7:50 p.m. that Jones Booker, who was serving a nearly three-year sentence for burglary, had walked away from the community reentry facility where he had been housed for about a month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Agents from specialized units within the department, along with help from the Long Beach Police Department, apprehended Booker in the Hyde Park area around noon Tuesday, authorities said.
By City News Service
Hand And Gavel.
VAN NUYS (CNS) - A co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation was charged today with murder and other charges for allegedly running over two young boys in Westlake Village in September and then fleeing the scene.
Rebecca Grossman, 57, of Hidden Hills, is set to be arraigned today in a Van Nuys courtroom on two felony counts each of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, along with one felony count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death.
She could face a maximum of 34 years to life in state prison if convicted as charged, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office.
By EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News
(LOS ANGELES) A co-founder of a nonprofit is facing murder charges after she allegedly drove into two young brothers, killing them, in suburban Los Angeles County, prosecutors said.
Eleven-year-old Mark Iskander and his 8-year-old brother Jacob Iskander were with their parents, crossing a Westlake Village street in a marked crosswalk, when they were struck by a car on Sept. 29, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said.
The suspected driver, Rebecca Grossman, was allegedly speeding at the time, prosecutors said. She s also accused of fleeing the scene, eventually stopping about one-quarter mile away from the scene when her car engine cutoff, prosecutors said.