And here too i will refer to my fathers 1959 address. He worried then about californias dangerously overcrowded prisons. A he talked about identifying those prisoners who should never be released to prey again on an innocent public, but he also said, we should also determine whether some prisoners are now kept confined after punishment has served its purpose. We face these same questions today what purposes should punishment serve and for how long should a person be confined to jail or prison, for a few days a few years or for life . In response to a large increase in crimes beginning in the 1970s, the legislature and the people, through ballot initiatives, dramatically lengthened sentences and added a host of new crimes and penalty enhancements. Today, californias legal codes contain more than 5,000 separate criminal provisions and over 400 penalty enhancements, an arcane and complex mix that only the most exquisitely trained specialist can fathom. And funding has grown proportionatel
Murder charges against the doctor. We spoke with the deputy d. A. By phone earlier this morning. She tells us that her office first had doubts about their case against the doctor back in july, which is why they released him then with the understanding they wanted to reexamine certain aspects of the case before this afternoons hearing. This morning she said they reached a decision to drop the charges against the doctor, in quote, the interest of justice, unquote. His friend, galvez, still stands accused of stabbing to death the doctors wife. This happened inside their gilroy home on april 1st. She showed the d. A. Documents that proved galvez is a con man. Those are her words, who was trying to swindle the two out of their condo located in ecuador. When galvez went to close the door on the sale of property, he killed her on his own without being hired to do so by the doctor as the District Attorneys Office first alleged. I represent an innocent client. I mean, hes 100 innocent in my opi
Good morning, today is february 12, 2015. Welcome to the rules committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is john avalos and i am the chair of the rules commit. I am joined to my left by president greed sitting in for supervisor cohen and to my right is supervisor tang our clerk today is lisa sumera and todays meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff. Thank you for your service. We also will need to have a motion to excuse supervisor malia cohen, who will be replaced by supervisor breed today. So move . Ood . Oo motion from supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor breed. We will take that without objection. We have many items up today. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Device cans. Completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed as part of the file should be handed to the clerk. Very good lets go on to our first item. Item no. 1 is a motion approving or rejecting the mayors appointment of ike kwan to the Public Utilities commission Publ
The rules committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is john avalos and i am the chair of the rules commit. I am joined to my left by president greed sitting in for supervisor cohen and to my right is supervisor tang our clerk today is lisa sumera and todays meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff. Thank you for your service. We also will need to have a motion to excuse supervisor malia cohen, who will be replaced by supervisor breed today. So move . Ood . Oo motion from supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor breed. We will take that without objection. We have many items up today. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Device cans. Completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed as part of the file should be handed to the clerk. Very good lets go on to our first item. Item no. 1 is a motion approving or rejecting the mayors appointment of ike kwan to the Public Utilities commission Public Utilities commission. Very very good. This is prob
From supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor breed. We will take that without objection. We have many items up today. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Device cans. Completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed as part of the file should be handed to the clerk. Very good lets go on to our first item. Item no. 1 is a motion approving or rejecting the mayors appointment of ike kwan to the Public Utilities commission Public Utilities commission. Very very good. This is probably the biggest moment in todays meeting, its a Commission Seat thats been a Long Time Coming and we have mr. Ike kwan who is here to present his interest in the seat and would like to welcome you, mr. Kwan, if you can share with us an Opening Statement well go on to questions from there. Well good morning, chair avalos, president breed, supervisor tang, and thank you for the opportunity to talk to you today about why i am interested in serving as a commissioner for the San Franc