{"id":2247,"date":"2021-10-09T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/10\/09\/newsom-signs-bills-restricting-sentencing-enhancements-for-many-crimes\/"},"modified":"2021-10-09T22:17:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T05:17:59","slug":"newsom-signs-bills-restricting-sentencing-enhancements-for-many-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/10\/09\/newsom-signs-bills-restricting-sentencing-enhancements-for-many-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Restricting Sentencing Enhancements Opposed by Dist. Atty. Vern Pierson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Kathy Lewis<\/h4>\n

<\/i> Oct 8, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIf sentence enhancements were applied fairly, this wouldn\u2019t be an issue,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, data shows that in California, you are much more likely to receive a sentence enhancement if you are Black. SB 81 tells our courts: Let\u2019s stop unfair sentences and use enhancements only when necessary to protect the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

The California State Sheriffs\u2019 Assn. opposes SB 81 \u201cbecause it will likely result in many otherwise appropriate sentence enhancements being dismissed,\u201d said Cory Salzillo, the group\u2019s legislative director.<\/p>\n

A companion measure signed by Newsom, SB 483, allows the retroactive repeal of sentence enhancements for prior prison or county jail felony terms. The governor also signed Assembly Bill 333, which restricts the use of sentence enhancements for alleged gang crimes.<\/p>\n

Sen. Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles) said her measure aims to reduce the list of crimes allowing gang enhancements to be charged, prohibit the use of the current charge as proof of a pattern of criminal gang activity, and separate gang allegations from underlying charges at trial.<\/p>\n

The senator said that current gang enhancements have weak definitions and that 92% of people with gang enhancements in the state are people of color.<\/p>\n

Kamlager said the bill is \u201ca step forward in prioritizing due process within our criminal legal system\u201d that will result in taking \u201cthe first step in addressing the pain unfairly and egregiously inflicted by gang enhancements upon California\u2019s communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The measure was opposed by the California District Attorneys Assn., which said it shows a misunderstanding of the way street gangs operate by requiring prosecutors to show a crime was committed to advance a gang as an organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cStreet gangs don\u2019t operate that way,\u201d said El Dorado County Dist. Atty. Vern Pierson, president of the association.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing crimes throughout the state of California up dramatically directly related to gangs,\u201d Pierson said. \u201cUnquestionably [the new law] will hamper our ability to go after criminal street gangs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsom signed a measure Tuesday that ends mandatory prison and jail sentences for nonviolent drug offenses. SB 73 was written by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco).<\/p>\n

The state adopted the mandatory sentences during the so-called war on drugs, and Wiener said they deny judges the discretion to order probation for nonviolent drug offenses rather than prison or jail sentences.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are serious about ending the war on drugs, which has been a racist policy failure, then we must start by expanding alternatives to incarceration for those who commit nonviolent drug offenses,\u201d Wiener said. \u201cIt\u2019s simple: Judges should not be forced to send someone to jail if they think noncarceral options are more fitting.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n

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“We are seeing crimes throughout the state of California up dramatically directly related to gangs,\u201d […]
\n– El Dorado County Dist. Atty. Vern Pierson, president of the California District Attorneys Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern.jpg",748,1200,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern-374x600.jpg",374,600,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern.jpg",640,1027,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern.jpg",640,1027,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern.jpg",748,1200,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern.jpg",748,1200,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern-748x720.jpg",748,720,true],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern.jpg",748,1200,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern-720x530.jpg",720,530,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vern-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Crime<\/a> News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247"}],"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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}