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LA gangster who shot and paralyzed a 16-year-old girl now works for  California's Department of Public Safety after Gavin Newsom slashed his 162 year sentence to just eight years
Daily Mail ^ | November 23, 2023 | Jen Smith

Posted on 11/23/2023 8:59:17 PM PST by lowbridge

Jarad Nava, now 28, works as an assistant in the Department of Public Safety and is an advocate of prison reform. He was featured in a Los Angeles Times profile Thursday and credits California's Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom for his early release.

In 2012, while drunk and high, he shot into a car carrying the relatives of a rival gang member. One of the victims was 16-year-old Yesenia Castro, who was shot in the back. 

The bullet severed her spinal chord and she was paralyzed from the waist down. 

Nava, who was 17 at the time, rejected a plea deal that would have sentenced him to 30 years in prison. 

After trial, he was sentenced to 162 years in prison on four counts of attempted murder. 

In the years that followed, he was featured in a prison reform documentary that highlighted his case and the plight of young offenders who the filmmakers felt had been unfairly represented. 

Yesenia, his victim, was interviewed for the film and said she wanted him to spend 50 years in prison. 

'When they arrested him, I felt relieved. I don't want him to be dead or anything, I just want him to pay a price,' she said.  

Despite that, his sentence was commuted to 10 years by Gavin Newsom. He eventually walked free in 2020, eight years after the shooting.

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Newsom, gushing over how he has turned his life around, told The L.A. Times that he 'cried' when he saw him 'dressed up' in his suit working at the state capitol.

'I came back and started crying in the office.

'To read a report about somebody, to see a ridiculous overcharging, to consider his age in relationship to that crime, to take a risk on a commutation

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; banglist; california; crime; dystopia; gavinnewsom; newsom; newsomfornia; prisonreform
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1 posted on 11/23/2023 8:59:17 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

What did the young girl get?


2 posted on 11/23/2023 9:01:51 PM PST by Lopeover (TRUMP SOONER THAN 2024! )
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To: lowbridge

Newsom is a total jerk


3 posted on 11/23/2023 9:06:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Lopeover

I’m not sure which TV lawyer would touch this. But, once might.


5 posted on 11/23/2023 9:07:46 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: lowbridge

Newsom should be required to serve the 154 years he let the thug off for.


6 posted on 11/23/2023 9:08:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Lopeover

Life as a paralyzed person.


7 posted on 11/23/2023 9:11:03 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: lowbridge

That’s so sweet.


8 posted on 11/23/2023 9:11:10 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: lowbridge

Those who are kind to the cruel invariably become cruel to the kind


9 posted on 11/23/2023 9:12:27 PM PST by rdcbn1
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To: lowbridge

Nope he got to pay the price for the crime. If they let him out after 20 years, then just maybe.....but he shouldn’t be working for the city after he gets out. He should have a record. And no photo ops with the Governor.


10 posted on 11/23/2023 9:12:41 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

There was the Stanford phd student who killed his math teacher. Ended up a SF inspector. Polak I believe.


11 posted on 11/23/2023 9:21:53 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: lowbridge

The bullet severed her spinal chord and she was paralyzed from the waist down.

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I wonder if she has regained her ability to sing and play music?


12 posted on 11/23/2023 9:22:25 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: lowbridge

Newsome is a piece of Brylcreamed trash.


13 posted on 11/23/2023 9:27:21 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Got it. We should be careful about visiting California.


14 posted on 11/23/2023 9:28:14 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Lopeover

Maybe the moderator should go work for Brandon since he she or it is opposed to free speech. I stand by my comment in number 4. Not sorry if it offended your virgin ears.


15 posted on 11/23/2023 9:37:25 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: chuckb87

Newsom is still a piece of shit.


16 posted on 11/23/2023 9:38:38 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: SaveFerris

I used to think that. He is much more than that. He is entirely evil. I know that word gets thrown around a lot. In his case it is entirely true.


17 posted on 11/23/2023 9:40:22 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: lowbridge
This thug obviously has a lot to smile about... But why is the gangster smiling?


18 posted on 11/23/2023 10:13:07 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Lopeover
What did the young girl get?

Life.

19 posted on 11/23/2023 10:23:51 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: chuckb87

I have no idea what you said in post #4. I’m late to the party. But please remember that the concept of “free speech” does not apply to private property. It just doesn’t.

And I say that as someone who has had a post or three removed while here on Free Republic. It’s a little aggravating. And sometimes I didn’t even know why it was removed. But it’s not my site. So I take the hit, and move on.


20 posted on 11/23/2023 11:09:57 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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