{"id":3390,"date":"2021-04-09T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2021-04-09T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:35:50","slug":"ca-law-abolishing-felony-murder-gives-child-killer-re-sentencing-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"CA Law Abolishing Felony Murder Gives Child Killer Re-sentencing Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2018 bill (SB 1437) signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown, made a change in the California Penal Code (<a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1170.95.&amp;lawCode=PEN\">PC 1170.95<\/a>) which is providing Pearl Fernandez, convicted in 2018 of the torture murder of her 8-year-old son Gabriel, with an opportunity to have her sentence of life in prison overturned. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/gabriel-fernandez-mother-files-petition-to-have-murder-conviction-vacated\">this article<\/a> from Fox 11, \u201cIn her petition, Fernandez declares changes made to Penal Codes 188\/189 (which took effect in 2019) alter how malice is imputed on someone, that would possibly alter her murder conviction.\u201d Fernandez\u2019s hearing is scheduled for June 1st in Los Angeles Superior Court according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-mother-pearl-fernandez-tortured-murdered-son-gabriel-fernandez\">this article<\/a> by Bradford Betz of Fox News.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pearl Fernandez plead guilty to first-degree murder and a special circumstance allegation of torture, as discussed by Betz.\u00a0 Gabriel was determined to have been abused and neglected time and time again, Betz explained, \u201cAn autopsy revealed the boy had a fractured skull, multiple broken ribs and burns on his body.\u201d Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami stated in a Tweet, \u201cGabriel\u2019s family now has to relive all the horror that was perpetrated upon a small and helpless child. It is plain wrong and completely unjust.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 Will District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n allow his office to oppose this murderer&#8217;s petition?\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2018 bill (SB 1437) signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown, made a change in the California Penal Code (PC 1170.95) which is providing Pearl Fernandez, convicted in 2018 of the torture murder of her 8-year-old son Gabriel, with an opportunity to have her sentence of life in prison overturned. According to this article from Fox 11, \u201cIn her petition, Fernandez declares changes made to Penal Codes 188\/189 (which took effect in 2019) alter how malice is imputed on someone, that would possibly alter her murder conviction.\u201d Fernandez\u2019s hearing is scheduled for June 1st in Los Angeles Superior Court according to this article by Bradford Betz of Fox News.\u00a0 Pearl Fernandez plead guilty to first-degree murder and a special circumstance allegation of torture, as discussed by Betz.\u00a0 Gabriel was determined to have been abused and neglected time and time again, Betz explained, \u201cAn autopsy revealed the boy had a fractured skull, multiple broken ribs and burns on his body.\u201d Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami stated in a Tweet, \u201cGabriel\u2019s family now has to relive all the horror that was perpetrated upon a small and helpless child. It is plain wrong and completely unjust.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 Will District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n allow his office to oppose this murderer&#8217;s petition?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,40,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-procedure","category-policy","category-sentencing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CA Law Abolishing Felony Murder Gives Child Killer Re-sentencing Opportunity - 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=3390\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CA Law Abolishing Felony Murder Gives Child Killer Re-sentencing Opportunity - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 2018 bill (SB 1437) signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown, made a change in the California Penal Code (PC 1170.95) which is providing Pearl Fernandez, convicted in 2018 of the torture murder of her 8-year-old son Gabriel, with an opportunity to have her sentence of life in prison overturned. According to this article from Fox 11, \u201cIn her petition, Fernandez declares changes made to Penal Codes 188\/189 (which took effect in 2019) alter how malice is imputed on someone, that would possibly alter her murder conviction.\u201d Fernandez\u2019s hearing is scheduled for June 1st in Los Angeles Superior Court according to this article by Bradford Betz of Fox News.\u00a0 Pearl Fernandez plead guilty to first-degree murder and a special circumstance allegation of torture, as discussed by Betz.\u00a0 Gabriel was determined to have been abused and neglected time and time again, Betz explained, \u201cAn autopsy revealed the boy had a fractured skull, multiple broken ribs and burns on his body.\u201d Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami stated in a Tweet, \u201cGabriel\u2019s family now has to relive all the horror that was perpetrated upon a small and helpless child. 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