Staunch conservative who led trump s campaign in his state. or michigan official william hartman, a vaccine opponent who you might remember tried to block joe biden s election win in detroit. or texas republican official h. scott aply who mocked vaccines and masks on social media. he was 45. all this tragic misinformation has a downstream effect. on people like 30-year-old mask opponent caleb wallace, founder of a group called the san antonio freedom defenders. or the minnesota anti-mask doctor christopher foley who pushed unproven alternative treatments. or more recently the 46-year-old orange county deputy d.a. kelly ernie who looked to a future in republican politics, her husband said she was not vaccinated. all of these are tragedies. unnecessary losses that brought heart break to their family and
the hole never goes away. there are times you need to have a tissue handy? absolutely. absolutely. and then, a decade after robin s murder our dad committed suicide, and it was devastating for us. it s true he had a terminal illness. he was dying of emphysema but, honestly, he was dying of grief. virgil hoynes was just 61. by 2003 the robin hoynes murder case was as cold as they come, 19 halloweens old, buried in the basement of the torrance police department, forgotten. but, that year the department started reviewing unsolved murders and the hoynes case caught the eye of an aggressive deputy d.a. named john lewin who took special pleasure in cracking unsolved cases. this is my favorite thing to do.
In the sense of you re speaking for the public that you swore an oath to present. what s been the response from the d.a. to have not just view, other deputy d.a. as well that s been outspoken. for sure. glans are you going to lose your job? i don t think so. we have we re well protected here in los angeles county we have civil service protection when is i speak out against him or really against the policy, i guess my big question is lawrence: is he upholding state and federal law right now? no. absolutely not. our district attorney is nullifying important law he s doing it explicitly and unapologetically he s not charging special circumstances. he s not charging gun allegations, he s not charging gang allegations. he gang unit we have to gang crime. he wants to see fewer go to
Forestry. according to dale hutchinson, he was responsible for this station. by the year 2003, marshall had been here almost 15 years, lived quietly in this rustic community known as mountain center. people called him bill, respected him, trusted him to keep them safe. he lived right there at the house right behind you. terry quinn made friends with marshall soon after he moved in. he was a very good person. he was very well respected. he fit in real well up here on the mountains. back in torrance, the case detectives had revived after almost 20 years was not fitting together so well. they had hoped that key piece of evidence, the foam, would tie marshall to that long ago crime scene, but the lab wouldn t definitively back it up. without some break, the case would stall again. what to do? well, it was perhaps a long shot, but deputy d.a. john lewin had always figured the alibi marshall got from his old girlfriend, yvonne hargrove, was a little shaky. so he had an idea.
They want to go in a different direction, that s what a democracy is all about. reporter: by the way, he just wrote back to union pacific about all those stolen packages, passing the buck back to them. up does little to secure or lock trains, he wrote. so gascon s approach to most misdemeanors is if it s a nonviolent crime and if the perp has mental health or substance abuse issues, gascon would rather that person be diverted towards rehabilitation rather than punished, thrown in jail, thrown in prison, which could end he says in an endless psych of recidivism. but as that deputy d.a. told me, he says these are social experiments not grounded in reality. jake? nick watt in los angeles, thank you so much. appreciate it. put down your number 2 pencils forever. the s.a.t. is making major