Posts by Nicholas

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and her runoff opponent, former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, are sounding off to FOX 11 regarding their positions on California’s recently enacted emergency $0 cash bail mandate. The order allows inmates charged with misdemeanors and low-level felonies to be eligible for immediate release from custody, […]

SACRAMENTO – In the Sacramento County Superior Court, defense attorneys argue for bail reductions, citing the potential risk of spreading COVID-19 in prisons. Two weeks ago, the Judicial Council of California voted on the emergency order to temporarily set cash bail to $0 in some cases to reduce the population of incarcerated people and limit […]

LOS ANGELES – Today, George Gascón was joined by Councilmember Mike Bonin, victims, family members of those condemned to death, exonerees, advocates, and members of the faith and legal communities to deliver a letter to Jackie Lacey calling on her to end her pursuit of the death penalty in Los Angeles, and to announce a plan […]

I do not support the use of the death penalty on moral and practical grounds. Not once in my nine years as District Attorney of San Francisco did my office seek the death penalty. I campaigned against the death penalty when Prop. 34 was introduced in 2012, and again in 2016 when Prop 62 was […]

Honorable Jackie Lacey 211 West Temple Street Suite 1200 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Dear District Attorney Jackie Lacey: We are the families of murder victims, the families of those sitting on death row, exonerees, and members of the faith community, and we stand together in our opposition to your office’s continued use of the death […]