In a letter sent from office to office, prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert let George Gascón know that it differs from LA’s new justice policies
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The new Los Angeles District Attorney General, George Gascón continues to add detractors for his new justice guidelines and this time it has been his colleague, the Sacramento District Attorney General, Anne Marie Schubert who informed Gascón that your office will not give you jurisdiction over any case as long as the new guidelines of the newly elected prosecutor are in force.
Through a letter, sent from one office to another, the prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert made it clear to George Gascón that his office will not hand over the jurisdiction of crime cases that include Sacramento County due to policies imposed by the Los Angeles prosecutor since December past, because he considers his directives to be very soft on prosecution. ion of crimes.
Gascón announced in December that Los Angeles County would seek justice reform and the Prosecutor’s Office would not seek the death penalty, nor it will judge minors as adults, nor will it impose bail in minor or non-violent crimes , in addition to stopping seeking increased penalties. However, it would later have rectified and allowed the increase in punishment in cases of child abuse and abuse of the elderly, as well as in hate crimes.
Schubert’s pronouncement occurs because in California, when a crime takes place in several counties or when a person commits crimes in different counties, the prosecutors of each district must decide who has jurisdiction of the case and appoint a headquarters prosecutor’s office to carry out the criminal indictment .
“His special guidelines are not only extreme, but will undoubtedly wreak havoc on the constitutional rights of victims,” says Schubert in the letter sent to Gascon that NBC had access to.
And Sacramento would not be the only district against Gascón’s policies, as a judge recently gave the Attorney General of l District of San Diego, Summer Stephan the ability to regain jurisdiction over the case of man who murdered two people and carried out several robberies in San Diego, Long Beach and Los Angeles and that he would be tried in the LA Prosecutor’s Office
According to the Los Angeles Times, Stephan had agreed that LA would have jurisdiction over the case when Jackie Lacey was still the prosecutor for the district, but the San Diego attorney general changed his mind in response to Gascón’s new guidelines who would take the case without seeking an increase in the sentence and with the possibility of releasing him in 20 years on probation, instead of serving life in prison.
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