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
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What did the young girl get?
Newsom is a total jerk
I’m not sure which TV lawyer would touch this. But, once might.
Newsom should be required to serve the 154 years he let the thug off for.
Life as a paralyzed person.
That’s so sweet.
Those who are kind to the cruel invariably become cruel to the kind
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.
There was the Stanford phd student who killed his math teacher. Ended up a SF inspector. Polak I believe.
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?
Newsome is a piece of Brylcreamed trash.
Got it. We should be careful about visiting California.
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.
Newsom is still a piece of shit.
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.
Life.
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.
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