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New Elect LA District Attorney List of reforms
Remove Cash Bail, Drop the death penalty, give new or resentencing of thousands, Juveniles wont be tried as adults, No more misdemeanors, and re-evaluate police use of force cases just to name a few.
Among the reforms expected to be detailed:
- Prosecutors will no longer ask for the accused to be held in lieu of cash bail. Rather, prosecutors will request detention with no bail for those accused of certain serious or violent crimes and will not oppose those accused of misdemeanors and, “non-violent, non-serious,” felonies to be released on their own recognizance.
- Gascon’s office will immediately drop any efforts to seek the death penalty in murder cases and will disband the committee of prosecutors who decided which cases were suitable for a death sentence.
- Prosecutors will no longer be allowed to seek sentencing enhancements, such as those for committing a crime to benefit a gang or for the use of a gun. Gascon’s office will also apply the criteria retroactively, which could potentially cause the resentencing of tens of thousands of people already sent to prison to new, shorter terms.
- Juvenile cases will never be allowed to be transferred to adult court, no matter the offense. Gascon’s office will ask that any pending cases be returned to juvenile court, where sentences are much shorter and focused more on rehabilitation.
- Prosecutors will stop charging many crimes, and almost all misdemeanors, related to, “poverty, homelessness, or addiction.”
The letter to police also addressed Gascon’s desire to change the way many in the justice system are punished, with a greater emphasis on reform and rehabilitation, rather than jail and prison.
The letter to police also addressed Gascon’s desire to change the way many in the justice system are punished, with a greater emphasis on reform and rehabilitation, rather than jail and prison.
“We will, for example, divert rather than prosecutor many low-level first-time offenses due to the collateral consequences and destabilizing nature of a criminal conviction,” he wrote.
Gascon explained that the combination of overly severe prosecution and the public perception that police agencies fail to hold officers to the same standards that are imposed on the community, “has created a chasm that the public largely views as a two-tiered system of justice; one for “us” and one for “them.””
He told officers that he will listen to and consider all evidence, and that, “there will be neither sacred cows nor sacrificial lambs.”
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