The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mrclose on June 14, 2019, 10:15:02 pm
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Hate to be a Crip facing a Blood jury. :shrug:
The state of California has made no secret that it wants to let as many people out of prison as possible.
From the early release of inmates through AB 109, to filling parole boards with felon friendly commissioners, to decriminalizing a litany of felonies and drug offenses with Props 47 and 57, Sacramento lawmakers are bending over backwards to dramatically reduce the state’s inmate population.
Despite all of these efforts, the number of inmates hasn’t dropped dramatically enough to satisfy the state’s ruling Democrats, so they’re kicking tires on a new approach — rigging the jury system so no one gets convicted in the first place.
https://outline.com/6XqV5v
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Good idea. If anybody knows a criminal, it's a felon.
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Good idea. If anybody knows a criminal, it's a felon.
Nail the competition, set your homies free, what could be wrong with that? (/sarc)
Of course, they might reconsider that when it's shot up defendant v LAPD in a civil suit....
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Soon the rich will leave California at an exponential rate.
After all, what they have is mine.
:)
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Will a person’s status as an ex-felon have to be disclosed to the attorneys during voir dire? I can see both prosecution and defense using peremptory strikes to get rid of felons from the jury.
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Good idea. If anybody knows a criminal, it's a felon.
During the jury selection process prosecutors routinely dismiss prospective jurors because they admit to KNOWING a felon.