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Sacramento DA Won’t Let Los Angeles DA Gascón Handle Dual Jurisdiction Cases

January 12, 2021 8:05 amJanuary 12, 2021 8:06 am

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert sent a letter Monday to recently elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón letting him know that because of his radical new directives getting rid of all crime enhancements, and eliminating cash...

Recall Movement Against San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Grows

January 5, 2021 2:23 pm

On Tuesday, a recall movement against San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is quickly growing following criticism over allowing the early release of a criminal with little supervision, who proceeded to kill two people on New Year’s Eve. As the...

DA Chesa Boudin Was Former Public Defender for Parolee Involved in Fatal New Years Eve Hit-and-Run

January 5, 2021 2:15 amJanuary 8, 2021 11:16 am

It appears San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has a shadier past than we thought. The 45-year-old parolee held for the New Year’s Eve hit-and-run deaths of two pedestrians had been facing a Three-Strikes life prison term until he was...

DA Chesa Boudin’s Deadly ‘Criminals First’ Policies

January 3, 2021 2:12 amJanuary 8, 2021 11:18 am

“A drunk driver accused by police of killing two pedestrians in downtown San Francisco on New Year’s Eve, and in a stolen car, is a parolee who remained free despite being arrested several times in the city in recent months,”...

San Francisco DA Blames ‘System’ for Parolee’s Hit-and-Run Killing 2 Pedestrians

January 2, 2021 10:58 amJanuary 2, 2021 5:07 pm

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was Hugo Chavez’s trusted propagandist, translator and advisor, just stepped in a hot steaming pile of controversy. A drunk driver accused by police of killing two pedestrians in downtown San Francisco on New...

Los Angeles DA George Gascón Favoring Criminals over Victims in New Policies

December 18, 2020 10:04 amDecember 18, 2020 10:10 am

Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón hit the ground running. Within minutes of being sworn in, Gascón announced he would be getting rid of all crime enhancements, and eliminating cash bail, despite California voters rejecting the elimination...

Newly Elected DA George Gascón Promises to Oppress LA’s Law Abiding Citizens

December 8, 2020 2:10 amDecember 7, 2020 9:13 pm

Newly elected Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón is the architect of Proposition 47 which largely decriminalized theft and drug crimes by reducing those crimes and a number of other “non-violent” felonies to misdemeanors; and Prop. 57, which allows early...