{"id":10303,"date":"2021-03-05T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:03:29","slug":"d-a-vern-pierson-says-sb-82-reduces-robbery-to-petty-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/03\/05\/d-a-vern-pierson-says-sb-82-reduces-robbery-to-petty-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"D. A. Vern Pierson says SB 82 reduces Robbery to Petty Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>FOX40 Mar 25, 2021, Image via Sac D.A.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PLACERVILLE, Calif. \u00a0\u201cIt&#8217;s an enormous problem,\u201d El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson said. Introduced by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, SB 81 would reduce &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate Bill 82 would cause a robbery, a strong robbery, to be reduced to petty theft. So all these stories about elderly Asian women being robbed, those cases are now going to become simple petty theft cases,\u201d said Thien Vu Ho, assistant chief deputy district attorney for Sacramento County &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the videos that you are seeing right now over and over again would be misdemeanors or nothing under her legislation, and I\u2019m sorry she doesn\u2019t understand it, but those are the facts,\u201d Pierson said. \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX40 Mar 25, 2021, Image via Sac D.A.] PLACERVILLE, Calif. \u00a0\u201cIt&#8217;s an enormous problem,\u201d El Dorado County District<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/crime\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Crime<\/a>","tag_info":"Crime","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10304,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions\/10304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}