{"id":11002,"date":"2024-11-21T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2024-11-23T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:46:00","slug":"santa-clara-county-judges-line-up-with-da-on-death-sentence-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11002","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County Judges Line Up with DA on Death Sentence Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Matthias and Dolores Carr have <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/op-ed-santa-clara-county-judges-line-up-with-da-on-death-sentence-reversal\/\">this op-ed<\/a> in the San Jose Spotlight with the above title.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since August, local judges have been nullifying murderers\u2019 death sentences one by one. But there\u2019s a problem: The law the judges have been relying on to reduce those death sentences doesn\u2019t apply to death sentences. And that\u2019s not the only problem.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy for judges to make mistakes when they\u2019re hearing only one side of the story, and that\u2019s what happened here. The reductions are coming at the insistence of Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who has recently discovered he doesn\u2019t like capital punishment. Unsurprisingly, the murderers feel the same way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>California law has a serious problem with statutes that effectively enable prosecutors to nullify existing sentences when they simply disagree with the law under which the perpetrator was properly sentenced years before. An initiative is sorely needed to fix this and other related problems, building on the success of the effort to enact Proposition 36 this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here is the bioblurb at the end of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ron Matthias worked as a deputy district attorney and later deputy attorney general over his 35-year career as a prosecutor. He was the statewide capital case coordinator in the California Attorney General\u2019s Office from 2007 until he retired in 2019. Dolores Carr was the district attorney of Santa Clara County from 2006 to 2010 and served as a judge on the Superior Court from 2000 to 2006 and again from 2011 to 2018. Earlier in her career she worked in private practice and was a deputy district attorney for 15 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Matthias and Dolores Carr have this op-ed in the San Jose Spotlight with the above title. Since August, local judges have been nullifying murderers\u2019 death sentences one by one. But there\u2019s a problem: The law the judges have been relying on to reduce those death sentences doesn\u2019t apply to death sentences. And that\u2019s not the only problem. It\u2019s easy for judges to make mistakes when they\u2019re hearing only one side of the story, and that\u2019s what happened here. The reductions are coming at the insistence of Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who has recently discovered he doesn\u2019t like capital punishment. Unsurprisingly, the murderers feel the same way. California law has a serious problem with statutes that effectively enable prosecutors to nullify existing sentences when they simply disagree with the law under which the perpetrator was properly sentenced years before. An initiative is sorely needed to fix this and other related problems, building on the success of the effort to enact Proposition 36 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty","category-prosecutors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Santa Clara County Judges Line Up with DA on Death Sentence Reversal - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11002\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Santa Clara County Judges Line Up with DA on Death Sentence Reversal - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ron Matthias and Dolores Carr have this op-ed in the San Jose Spotlight with the above title. 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