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In a first, California Supreme Court reverses a death sentence under new racial justice law
Cal Matters ^ | June 3, 2026 | Nigel Duara

Posted on 06/04/2026 5:48:58 PM PDT by CW_Conservative

A Los Angeles prosecutor likened a Black murder suspect to a Bengal tiger. Decades later, the California Supreme Court found that trope showed unacceptable racial bias.

The California Supreme Court this week reversed the death sentence of a Los Angeles Bloods gang member convicted of killing a rival Crip in the early 1990s because a prosecutor compared him to a dangerous animal, the first time a death sentence has been overturned under the 2020 Racial Justice Act.

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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feral; superpredator

1 posted on 06/04/2026 5:48:58 PM PDT by CW_Conservative
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To: CW_Conservative

CA does not carry out death sentences anyway, so it doesn’t matter what their crazy courts do.


2 posted on 06/04/2026 5:51:12 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: CW_Conservative
I say detonate munitions on the major fault lines in California, and let the planet take care of the rest.

My apologies to Freepers still living in that political and social hell-hole.

3 posted on 06/04/2026 5:54:53 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CW_Conservative

What if he called him a black panther? Then he’d be a superhero?


4 posted on 06/04/2026 5:54:54 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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So blacks are more important to the bag o crap, weaponized “judicial” whorehouse in this country? Too many woman. We need to start culling that heard.


5 posted on 06/04/2026 6:14:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal Alien Border Invaders are the broken windows of America. Influencers of violence and crime.)
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To: CW_Conservative

“The California Supreme Court this week reversed the death sentence of a Los Angeles Bloods gang member convicted of killing a rival Crip in the early 1990s because a prosecutor compared him to a dangerous animal”

You can’t make this sh*t up.


6 posted on 06/04/2026 6:36:09 PM PDT by simpson96
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What do they think these dangerous animals are, cuddly little teddy bears?


7 posted on 06/04/2026 6:47:32 PM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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I would sentence him to life imprisonment in a cell with four Crips.


8 posted on 06/04/2026 6:53:26 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: CW_Conservative

funny, ive never met a racist bengal tiger

maybe tigers become racist when they live in the once-great state/ paradise of Californication?


9 posted on 06/04/2026 6:59:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: CW_Conservative

So which Justice’s home is the Blood going to be put up in?


10 posted on 06/04/2026 7:06:27 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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Ca SC. The punk probably took it as a compliment. It doesn’t matter Ca will never carry out a death sentence anyway.


11 posted on 06/04/2026 7:11:52 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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The 19th Amendment was a terrible mistake.

It should be repealed.

L


12 posted on 06/04/2026 7:20:11 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: CW_Conservative

Any excuse.


13 posted on 06/04/2026 7:39:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CW_Conservative

The only entity wronged was the tiger.


14 posted on 06/04/2026 7:41:57 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: CW_Conservative

Giving blacks license to kill, as if they don’t already do enough of that.


15 posted on 06/04/2026 8:03:19 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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[So blacks are more important to the bag o crap, weaponized “judicial” whorehouse in this country? ]


Only the criminals. The law-abiding ones are less important - some even vote Republican.


16 posted on 06/04/2026 8:40:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: CW_Conservative

Being from Cincinnati, a Bengal Tiger is not a threatening animal at all.


17 posted on 06/04/2026 8:42:31 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: CatOwner

> My apologies to Freepers still living in that political and social hell-hole.

Not just FReepers. FreeRepublic itself is based in Fresno.


18 posted on 06/04/2026 9:22:09 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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