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L.A. teen got a second chance from Gascón after killing. Now he is accused in a new homicide
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 21, 2024 Updated 8:05 AM PT | Richard Winton, James Queally

Posted on 06/21/2024 9:31:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s reform-minded outlook on juvenile justice seemed made for someone like Denmonne Lee.

When he was 16, Lee took part in an Antelope Valley gas station robbery that ended in the death of former Marine John Ruh. Lee, who was acquainted with the victim, had planned the 2018 robbery and provided a weapon to his co-defendant, according to court records. Although Lee wasn’t the shooter, he was charged with murder.

But when Gascón took office two years later, as Lee’s case was making its way through the court system, he barred prosecutors from trying juveniles as adults. Lee was convicted and ordered held at the county’s Secure Youth Treatment Facility in Sylmar until he turned 25.

Lee “responded very well” to programs in custody, authorities said. Within a year, probation officials moved him from the high-security Sylmar facility into a rehabilitation-focused setting in Malibu. After being released to a halfway house last June, Lee enrolled in community college and found work at a local nonprofit.

And then, in April, he was arrested and charged with playing a major role in another homicide.

The case has given Gascón’s critics an opportunity to directly link the progressive district attorney’s policies to a violent crime that some argue could have been prevented had Lee faced a stiffer penalty in adult court. Nathan Hochman, Gascón’s opponent as he seeks reelection in November, has spent significant time shouting out high-profile crimes that he contends are symptoms of the incumbent’s policies.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: california
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1 posted on 06/21/2024 9:31:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“Denmonne Lee”

Them.

2 posted on 06/21/2024 9:37:54 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is why the death penalty for murder needs to be brought back.


3 posted on 06/21/2024 9:39:10 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There NEVER should have been a second chance. Murderers and rapists and child molesters need to be dragged to the town square and hung until dead at high noon—in public.


4 posted on 06/21/2024 9:39:35 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I away the day when someone’s relative is killed by one of these beneficiaries of a dumb diversion metes out justice to the prosecutor.


5 posted on 06/21/2024 9:40:09 AM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: metmom

Long past time for the families of these victims to exact their revenge against these rogue DAs. That will make it end


6 posted on 06/21/2024 9:41:10 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Reno89519

As Garfield sometimes put it “they need to be dragged out into the street and shot.”


7 posted on 06/21/2024 9:42:47 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("If they can do that to Trump then they can do that to YOU." -- Lazamataz)
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To: metmom

> This is why the death penalty for murder needs to be brought back. <

Yep. Interestingly enough, California has not abolished the death penalty. It’s still on the books. But no CA governor these days will sign a death warrant.


8 posted on 06/21/2024 9:43:35 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Secure Youth Treatment Facility in Sylmar

Been there doing charity work. It’s a prison.


9 posted on 06/21/2024 9:45:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Denmonne.

Not sure, but this looks like an anagram of Me A Demon.


10 posted on 06/21/2024 9:46:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Give him another chance. Maybe third time’s the charm. With a little luck, he’ll rid the world of George Gascón while he’s out, and another street thug will put the little bastard out of operation permanently.


11 posted on 06/21/2024 9:46:52 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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"This is why the death penalty for murder needs to be brought back.This is why the death penalty for murder needs to be brought back."

Let's start with Gavin Newsom, who ordered a halt to executions in California in March 2019.

12 posted on 06/21/2024 9:50:49 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, you have to admit, he did get a second chance. And further more he took it.


13 posted on 06/21/2024 10:20:51 AM PDT by Flint
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Secure Youth Treatment Facility in Sylmar Been there doing charity work. It’s a prison.

It used to be a juvenile hall...Not any longer...

At this time, LA County has only one juvenile hall open...In Downey...There were 3 juvenile halls many years ago...

14 posted on 06/21/2024 10:27:17 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: BenLurkin
Secure Youth Treatment Facility in Sylmar Been there doing charity work. It’s a prison.

It used to be a juvenile hall...Not any longer...

At this time, LA County has only one juvenile hall open...In Downey...There were 3 juvenile halls many years ago...

15 posted on 06/21/2024 10:27:37 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hochman is leading Gascon by 20 points in the polls. It will be difficult to overcome that advantage via vote fraud - but I’m sure the dems will try.

It’s going to be a sweet victory indeed when Gascon is defeated.

Can’t hardly wait...


16 posted on 06/21/2024 10:35:52 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

LOL

Book title: Some People Need Killing.

“I’m not all bad. Some people need killing. They don’t just deserve it; they require it.”
——author Patricia Evangelista , 2023


17 posted on 06/21/2024 10:35:59 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

being punished in Malibu....how awful....


18 posted on 06/21/2024 10:53:23 AM PDT by cherry
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Forget about Denmonne (Is that pronounced Demon-ee?). Charge Gascón with the killing.


19 posted on 06/21/2024 10:53:29 AM PDT by PAR35
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My family has lived in Palmdale going on 40 years. LA county has been shipping ‘them’ from los Angeles for generations and putting them up in public section 8 housing. Now, it is a violent s hole.


20 posted on 06/21/2024 11:38:42 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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