At a court proceeding where he was called lazy, childish, sick, demented and cruel, a Redondo Beach man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years to life in prison for brutally killing his girlfriend, reality television show attorney Loredana Nesci. Robert Brian Reagan, 53, who was found guilty in August of second-degree murder, looked down as […]
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has only been in office a little over two months, but he is already a boil on the side of Lady Justice. Gascon has not only raised the ire of the Deputy District Attorneys in his office, but of District Attorneys in other counties across the State. Gascon’s “Special Directives” are being disregarded by local and regional law enforcement, and the liberal-leaning District Attorneys Union has filed a restraining order against him.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold, and Judge James C. Chalfant have recently neutered Gascon’s policies of removing enhancements and special circumstances in criminal cases, and not enforcing three-strike allegations.
L.A. District Attorney George Gascón is fighting his own staff in court to defend his sweeping new policies designed to reduce mass incarceration and end racial disparities in the justice system.
The Association of Deputy District Attorneys, the union that represents Gascón s prosecutors, has sued the DA, arguing that his special order to stop using so-called sentencing enhancements violates state law. Enhancements can tack on many years to a prison sentence.
A prosecutor can add enhancements for defendants who are members of a gang, use a gun during the commission of a crime, or commit a second or third strike that is a serious or violent felony.