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Want to sit in on the Menendez brothers’ hearing? The lottery is Monday
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Want to sit in on the Menendez brothers’ hearing? The lottery is Monday

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Superior Court will be implementing a lottery system to manage the eager crowds vying to watch convicted murders Eric and Lyle Menendez return to the court to seek a downgrade to their charges, possibly leading to their release. Lottery tickets will be distributed outside the courthouse from 8 to 9 a.m. Monday and the drawing will be …

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Column: Gascón, ousted as L.A. County top prosecutor, was his own worst enemy
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Column: Gascón, ousted as L.A. County top prosecutor, was his own worst enemy

LA Times  

Los Angeles County Dist. “I had people calling me two months after Gascón won asking, ‘Why is crime going up?’ He hadn’t even gotten into office yet,” civil rights attorney Connie Rice told me Thursday. “He didn’t come in and say, ‘Anyone who needs to be charged for a violent third strike will be charged, but what I am going …

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Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?

Slate  

From the first frames of Emilia Pérez, writer-director Jacques Audiard makes it clear this is going to be a musical. The story, part crime caper, part domestic melodrama, part meditation on the mystery of selfhood, will involve suspense, disguised identity, the search for redemption, tragic hubris—a full complement of themes from genres as divergent as film noir and the kind …

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Editorial: California doesn’t have to choose between public safety and criminal justice reform
2 months ago

Editorial: California doesn’t have to choose between public safety and criminal justice reform

LA Times  

California voters decided this week to roll back criminal justice reforms and appeared to be ousting progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, effectively reversing decisions they made as recently as 2020 and 2022. While the approval of Proposition 36 and the loss of two reform-minded district attorneys are setbacks, a broader outlook suggests public opinion still favors a …

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L.A. County D.A. Gascón’s own prosecutors begin lining up to challenge him in 2024
1 year, 9 months ago

L.A. County D.A. Gascón’s own prosecutors begin lining up to challenge him in 2024

LA Times  

Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Standing in front of a packed room in Whittier, longtime line prosecutor Jonathan Hatami promised to “restore civility” to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office and stand up for the crime victims he insists George Gascón has forgotten. Maria Ramirez — who along with Hatami is one of at least 16 L.A. County prosecutors …

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Unsealed transcripts open door to end of Roman Polanski’s 45-year legal saga in the U.S.
2 years, 5 months ago

Unsealed transcripts open door to end of Roman Polanski’s 45-year legal saga in the U.S.

LA Times  

A Los Angeles County judge intended to sentence Roman Polanski to only 90 days in prison for sexually abusing a child in 1977, according to court transcripts made public for the first time this weekend that bolster the Oscar-winning director’s chances of terminating his status as a fugitive. Polanski’s defense attorney, Harland Braun, said Monday he believes the transcripts prove …

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Campaign to recall D.A. Gascón has submitted thousands of signatures. What happens now?
2 years, 6 months ago

Campaign to recall D.A. Gascón has submitted thousands of signatures. What happens now?

LA Times  

South Bay field manager Karen Shonka, front, volunteers Ana and Mark Brown, and Gateway Cities field manager Gerald Sirotnak, right, open envelopes and separate mailed-in items at a recall campaign office on June 1. There were 5,668,570 registered voters in L.A. County in November 2020, when Gascón ousted two-term incumbent Jackie Lacey to become top prosecutor, according to the registrar’s …

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LA authorities announce arrests in smash-and-grab robberies
3 years, 1 month ago

LA authorities announce arrests in smash-and-grab robberies

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Los Angeles on Thursday announced more than a dozen arrests in recent smash-and-grab thefts at stores where nearly $340,000 worth of merchandise was stolen, part of a rash of organized retail crime in California. At a joint news conference, both Moore and Mayor Eric Garcetti called for an end to a no-bail policy for some …

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Several of D.A. George Gascón’s reforms blocked by L.A. County judge
3 years, 11 months ago

Several of D.A. George Gascón’s reforms blocked by L.A. County judge

LA Times  

Los Angeles County Dist. The lawsuit took particular issue with Gascón’s policy of barring the use of sentencing enhancements for prior felony convictions, arguing that under California’s “three strikes” law, prosecutors do not have discretion “to refuse to seek the enhancement.” In his ruling, Judge James Chalfant noted that the “three strikes” law requires prosecutors to “plead and prove” all …

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Union representing deputy district attorneys sues Gascón over enhancements policy
4 years ago

Union representing deputy district attorneys sues Gascón over enhancements policy

LA Times  

The union representing Los Angeles County deputy district attorneys on Wednesday sued Dist. Gascón’s policies have “placed line prosecutors in an ethical dilemma — follow the law, their oath, and their ethical obligations, or follow their superior’s orders,” wrote the union’s lawyer, Eric M. George. Gascón said he was extending to his deputies a “sincere invitation to join me in …

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Adam Schiff drops endorsement of Jackie Lacey in L.A. County district attorney’s race
4 years, 6 months ago

Adam Schiff drops endorsement of Jackie Lacey in L.A. County district attorney’s race

LA Times  

Rep. Adam B. Schiff has withdrawn his endorsement of Los Angeles County Dist. “As the first African American woman to hold the LA County D.A.’s office, I am proud of my record of taking on systemic racism and reforming criminal justice — from bail reform, to reducing juvenile cases by nearly 50%, to increasing our office’s focus on mental health …

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The Race To End Mass Incarceration In America’s Second Largest City
4 years, 10 months ago

The Race To End Mass Incarceration In America’s Second Largest City

Huff Post  

California has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform, slowly undoing policies that contribute to mass incarceration and disproportionately punish the poor and people of color. “He hasn’t prosecuted police the way we would like a prosecutor to do,” said Abdullah, the Black Lives Matter LA co-founder, “but part of what he was saying in that moment is that …

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