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Last Sunday, (January 2) a woman and her 13-year-old daughter were driving through an intersection in the the LA County town of Norwalk when a speeding car ran a red light and T-boned their car.\u00a0 Both died from their injuries.\u00a0 CBS Los Angeles reports<\/a> that the driver of the speeding car, 26-year-old Brittany Lopez, was driving without a license.\u00a0 Investigators believe that Lopez was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.\u00a0 She was arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter which can be charged as a\u00a0 felony.\u00a0 Running a red light through a crowded intersection at high speed resulting in death can be charged as gross vehicular manslaughter, a violent felony.\u00a0 Depending on the toxicology report, Lopez could have faced charges of “gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated,” which carries a possible sentence of 15-years in prison.\u00a0 But before the toxicology report was available, Lopez was released from jail after the district attorney’s office refused to file charges against her for any<\/em> crime.\u00a0\u00a0 In Sacramento, Bakersfield or San Diego, this woman would be sitting in jail awaiting trial. In George Gasc\u00f3n’s Los Angeles she is, likely as not, driving around in another car, probably drunk.\u00a0 And Gasc\u00f3n tells us that his policies are restoring justice and have made LA safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday, (January 2) a woman and her 13-year-old daughter were driving through an intersection in the the LA County town of Norwalk when a speeding car ran a red light and T-boned their car.\u00a0 Both died from their injuries.\u00a0 CBS Los Angeles reports that the driver of the speeding car, 26-year-old Brittany Lopez, was driving without a license.\u00a0 Investigators believe that Lopez was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.\u00a0 She was arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter which can be charged as a\u00a0 felony.\u00a0 Running a red light through a crowded intersection at high speed resulting in death can be charged as gross vehicular manslaughter, a violent felony.\u00a0 Depending on the toxicology report, Lopez could have faced charges of “gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated,” which carries a possible sentence of 15-years in prison.\u00a0 But before the toxicology report was available, Lopez was released from jail after the district attorney’s office refused to file charges against her for any crime.\u00a0\u00a0 In Sacramento, Bakersfield or San Diego, this woman would be sitting in jail awaiting trial. In George Gasc\u00f3n’s Los Angeles she is, likely as not, driving around in another car, probably drunk.\u00a0 And Gasc\u00f3n tells us that his policies are restoring justice and have made LA safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Constitutes a Serious Crime in Los Angeles County? - Crime & 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=5608\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Constitutes a Serious Crime in Los Angeles County? - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last Sunday, (January 2) a woman and her 13-year-old daughter were driving through an intersection in the the LA County town of Norwalk when a speeding car ran a red light and T-boned their car.\u00a0 Both died from their injuries.\u00a0 CBS Los Angeles reports that the driver of the speeding car, 26-year-old Brittany Lopez, was driving without a license.\u00a0 Investigators believe that Lopez was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.\u00a0 She was arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter which can be charged as a\u00a0 felony.\u00a0 Running a red light through a crowded intersection at high speed resulting in death can be charged as gross vehicular manslaughter, a violent felony.\u00a0 Depending on the toxicology report, Lopez could have faced charges of “gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated,” which carries a possible sentence of 15-years in prison.\u00a0 But before the toxicology report was available, Lopez was released from jail after the district attorney’s office refused to file charges against her for any crime.\u00a0\u00a0 In Sacramento, Bakersfield or San Diego, this woman would be sitting in jail awaiting trial. 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