Methamphetamine. 36yearold Sayyadina Thomas is sitting in jail charged with felony child abuse for allegedly forcing meth into a twoyearold boys mouth. It happened monday afternoon as a boy named griffin was with his nanny and another toddler at the play structure of peoples park in berkeley. The nanny was apparently unaware that the park is frequented by the mentally ill and drug users. Witnesses say thomas saw griffin asking if he wanted candy and then grabbed him. She grabbed the child by the back of the head and forced it into his mouth. I have a doctor of my own. I reacted and ran straight up to her. She ran straight off the boys nanny checked his mouth and found nothing. Still she called Uc Berkeley Police we are at peoples park and a report of a child having something in his mouth. She told police that thomas was a stranger to them interactions were unprovoked. Officers arrested thomas who told police she gave the bowl boy a tootsie roll. Later, she told paramedics it was actual
Proposition, the defenders of the proposition conceded to everybodys surprise, certainly to my surprise, that the fiveyear limitation was wildly impractical and probably unenforceable. They recharacterized that fiveyear limit not as a mandatory deadline, but as an aspiration. Reporter speeding up the process was no longer mandatory, the constitutionality of prop 66 was upheld by the California Supreme Court by a vote of 52. But it doesnt address the logjam in finding qualified attorneys to represent Death Penalty cases. Essentially what were getting is a process more vulnerable to mistakes, because attorneys that are not experts on doing this kind of litigation that is very specialized are going to have to start doing it. Reporter this criminal justice expert said more cases could end up in federal court and the approximately 18 inmates now on death row who have exhausted all of their appeals could face execution in another year to year and a half. As for the rest . Prop 66 on its majo
Penalty . Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. San quentin, roughly 700 inmates condemned to die there. That includes Scott Peterson who awaits the execution for the murder of his pregnant wife lacy. The last time california executed an inmate was in 2006. Some in the Legal Community doubt todays ruling the affect death row. Leslie brinkley is live now to explain exactly why. Leslie . Reporter the California Supreme Court today, dan, overruled a constitutional challenge to prop 66, the Death Penalty initiative passed by voters last november that was supposed to speed up the Death Penalty process. Californias 750 inmates on death row wait an average of 16 years for a qualified attorney to take their appeals case. It can then take decades for the case to pass through the appeals process. Prop 66 was pitched to voters as a fix for that. At the heart of it . A mandatory fiveyear limit for the Supreme Court to complete appeals. The proponents of the proposition, the defenders of t
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