{"id":8990,"date":"2023-05-22T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8990"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:01:41","slug":"the-law-according-to-king-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8990","title":{"rendered":"The Law According to King George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising move announced Friday, progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon&#8217;s office will be charging the three Chicago gang members arrested for the murders of three women in Beverly Crest last January, with special circumstance first-degree murder and enhancements.\u00a0 Brie Stimson of Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/chicago-gang-affiliated-suspects-charge-ambush-style-attack-3-women-dead-beverly-hills\">reports<\/a> that nine people were shot on the morning of January 28 by what police characterized as an ambush.\u00a0 The three women killed and the accused shooters were all from the Chicago area.\u00a0\u00a0 This announcement is unusual because, since his election, District Attorney Gascon has forbidden his deputies from charging special circumstances and enhancements against murderers and other violent offenders.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For example, earlier this month police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/innocent-la-father-killed-da-gascon-gives-violent-career-criminal-multiple-diversions\">arrested<\/a> a woman for the stabbing murder of a man on an LA street.\u00a0 In 2020 the same woman was arrested for attempted murder for stabbing another woman in the chest.\u00a0 In 2021 she was arrested for attacking a police officer.\u00a0 Later that year she was arrested for pulling a knife and threatening to kill a man.\u00a0 In March of this year she was arrested again for assaulting a bus driver with a knife.\u00a0 This violent offender never spent any jail or prison time for her crimes.\u00a0 After each arrest Gascon&#8217;s office chose to divert her to a mental health program and on each occasion she walked away from the program.\u00a0 It took the murder of the father of two girls to induce Gascon&#8217;s office into treating her like a serious criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Charging the Chicago gang members with special circumstance murder will require that they be sentenced, if convicted, to life-without-the-possibility-of-parole (LWOP). \u00a0 Gascon has publicly stated that he opposes LWOP.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that Gascon&#8217;s charging and sentencing decisions are motivated by political calculation rather than justice and public safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising move announced Friday, progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon&#8217;s office will be charging the three Chicago gang members arrested for the murders of three women in Beverly Crest last January, with special circumstance first-degree murder and enhancements.\u00a0 Brie Stimson of Fox News reports that nine people were shot on the morning of January 28 by what police characterized as an ambush.\u00a0 The three women killed and the accused shooters were all from the Chicago area.\u00a0\u00a0 This announcement is unusual because, since his election, District Attorney Gascon has forbidden his deputies from charging special circumstances and enhancements against murderers and other violent offenders.<\/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-8990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Law According to King George - Crime &amp; 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