George Gascón
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The sister of a man who was shot and killed by a juvenile gang member is outraged after the motion to have him prosecuted as an adult was withdrawn by District Attorney George Gascón as part of his new reforms, despite the fact that the murderer has continued to post his allegiance to his gang on social media while in custody.
March 24
LGBTQ voters and others were dumbstruck last week when Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced that, in addition to several other sweeping reforms, he’d be ending sentencing enhancements for criminals, including those found to have committed hate crimes.
“People that commit a crime … they are going to face accountability. And that accountability will be proportionate to the crime,” the newly minted DA explained. “Enhancements do not have anything to do with accountability.”
After taking a call with LGBTQ advocates on Thursday, December 17, Gascón amended the directive, saying he would now “allow enhanced sentences in cases involving the most vulnerable victims and in specified extraordinary circumstances. These exceptions shall be narrowly construed.”
Police say just one hour before that, Nelson
shot and killed 31-year-old Russian skateboarder Dmitry Koltsov. Deputy Solano died in the hospital.
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FOX 11 has now confirmed that Gascon s office is seeking to dismiss all gun enhancements and special circumstances of multiple murders against Nelson. If a judge signs off on the dismissals, life without parole would be off the table for Nelson if he were to be convicted, and he could potentially be released from prison at some point in the future.
Solano s murder was deeply mourned by the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department, and by the public:
Gascón s office confirmed to Melugin that it is seeking to remove the sentencing enhancements, and justified it by arguing that it was not in the public interest to keep an inmate in prison for life at high cost if he had been rehabilitated:
Los Angeles District Attorney
George Gascón issued a series of sweeping changes that ended new death-penalty prosecutions and moved towards reconsidering existing death sentences in the county with the nation’s largest death row. The policy changes signaled the potential nationwide impact of local prosecutor elections in 2020, as new reform prosecutors prepare to take the helm in counties that constitute more than 11% of the country’s total death row.
Issuing a series of special directives, Gascón ushered in a new era of criminal justice reform. “In any case charged from this day forward,” Special Directive 20-11, the new
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