L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón was elected, in part, on a promise to stop trying juveniles as adults. But as some seek to be resentenced under a 2017 California law, that stance has frustrated some crime victims.
When he saw a Los Angeles police detective walking toward his mother’s doorstep this year, Guillermo Orellana feared the worst.
In 2016, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 57, a sweeping criminal justice reform bill that barred prosecutors from trying juveniles as adults without a judge’s approval. That same law allowed previously convicted juvenile defendants whose cases were directly filed in adult court to retroactively seek what is known as a transfer hearing, in which prosecutors have to convince a judge the defendant should have been tried as an adult.
Although families such as the Orellanas feel justice has been undone, the person reviewing such cases inside the district attorney’s office said she was seeking a fair outcome for both the victim and the accused. Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, joined by members of SEIU Local 2015 and other community leaders, addresses a news conference on the steps of the Hall of Justice in downtown L.A.“For the families that I have spoken to and been involved with, it has been really devastating. They are very angry at Gascón.
In another case affected by Proposition 57, a 27-year-old man walked out of prison despite being convicted of murder in what police called a gang-driven slaying on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. The defendant was 17 at the time of the shooting, and Gascón’s prosecutors declined to try to uphold his conviction as an adult.A day rarely passes that Guillermo Orellana doesn’t think about his younger brother.
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