Posted on 04/07/2023 4:24:48 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price has attacked Judge Mark McCannon demanding that he be disqualified from presiding over any criminal case moving forward.
In March, McCannon had rejected a 15-year plea deal that was brokered for defendant Delonzo Logwood who was accused of a triple murder.
The deal involved Logwood having to plead no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charge for the fatal shooting of 22-year old Eric Ford in 2008. In exchange the two other murder charges against Logwood, the killing of 24-year-old Zaire Washington and 30-year-old Richard Carter, that took place in the same year would be dropped. The result would have been Logwood serving 15 years instead of the original 75 years to life sentence.
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“Throw her in the cell NEXT to him”, NO!
Throw her into the cell WITH him!
The point of a plea deal is the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser charge to avoid the chance of being found guilty of all charges.
The prosecution offers a plea deal to avoid the chance of the jury returning “not guilty” on all charges and him walking.
What the judge did was negate any incentive for future defendants to take a plea deal. If you get the max anyway you might as well go to trial
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