Posted on 12/07/2021 9:32:43 PM PST by george76
Prosecutor and defense are colluding to subvert justice' through stipulated resentencing agreements, says a victims rights attorney..
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has refused to rubber stamp an agreement between a controversial prosecutor and defense attorneys to remove a man from death row for a 1996 double murder ...
In a sign that the bench is beginning to push back against some of District Attorney George Gascón’s sweeping social justice policies, Judge Roger Ito last week in a Norwalk court rejected Deputy District Attorney Shelan Joseph’s stipulation to defense claims that 57-year-old Samuel Zamudio is intellectually disabled, exempting him from the death penalty.
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Ito said that this is the first time as a bench officer that he has not accepted a proposed stipulation between the parties,” said Kathleen Cady, an attorney who represents the Bensons’ children, Jane Bouffard and Tom Vardon. “The judge said that he wants to ensure that the process is transparent for the people, the defendant, the victims and the public.”
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Collusion between Gascón, AG?
Bouffard and Vardon believe Joseph is attempting to concede the defense’s intellectual disability claim because of Gascón’s opposition to the death penalty and not due to the law or facts of the case..
They have a right to expect that DA Gascón follow the law as enacted by the legislators and the voters, and not undertake to change a sentence based on his own personal philosophy
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Gascón also faces a second recall effort..
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To ensure a predetermined outcome based upon his ideology, he placed these cases in the hands of a career public defender, who is not only a longtime advocate against the death penalty, but is willing to take a dive to undermine the case. The victims and the public are left without an advocate
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Zamudio, was sentenced to death in 1997 for the fatal stabbings of 79-year-old Elmer Benson, and his wife, Gladys, 74, during a robbery at their South Gate home.
Seems to me the guy needs to finish his sentence....death or otherwise.
Prosecfilth
These “disabled” people are apparently able enough to kill. They should always and forever be removed from humanity.
The judge mentioned is Roger Ito, the judge in the OJ Simpson was Lance Ito I wonder if they are related ??
Probably not. Lance Ito was an idiot. This guy sounds competent.
Tell me EXACTLY when the last Death Row convict was actually
put to death in Calif.
I know there are people who have been on Death Row for OVER 35 years.
Thought:
Since Covid is killing so many people-—why not kill off all those inmates who are convicted of violent crimes & save the planet that way?????
Yep here in Ca. we house and clothe them till they die on death row!!!
That would take men with backbones. Not many of them left anymore.
Outrage ensued but Soros saved her sorry **s and Financed her election along w/ many other woke prosecutorial imbeciles.
CALL Congress at (202) 224-3121. Ask to be connected to the office of your legislator.
Story at https://www.pressreader.com/....Foxx lower right
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