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One of the many far-reaching reforms L.A. District Attorney George Gascón has implemented affects the little-known world of parole hearings.
In a reversal from previous DA s, Gascón
has ordered his prosecutors to support parole in most cases. Historically, prosecutors have generally opposed parole. Gascón has also prohibited deputy DA’s from attending Board of Parole hearings.
He says for decades, prosecutors have too often argued to keep people locked up based on their original crime. Most of those seeking parole are known as lifers murderers, rapists and other violent offenders serving an open-ended sentence.
word is back from a wichita jury. it decided, parentally, in just minutes whether scott roeder will be acquitted or found guilty of killing dr. george tiller. he confessed in open court that he put a handgun to the doctor s head and pulled the trigger because he performed late-term abortions. he insists he had to do this to save unborn babies. both sides agree, the facts of the case aren t in dispute here. looking up again was shocked, horrified, and could not believe what he was seeing. what he was seeing was that man that offended taking a .22 caliber semiautomatic handgun and placing it to the forehead of dr. tiller and at point blank range with the steel barrel pressed into his flesh fired a shot resulting in dr. tiller s death. in addition to the charges brought by the state of murder, it brought two additional counts of aggravated assault. relative to those counts, the evidence is also clear. from all witnesses that scott roeder walked into that church to stop georg