United States v. Galan: Child Porn/ Restitution
Defendant Galan was convicted with the possession and distribution of child pornography and now has to pay restitution. He believes that the district court made a mistake when it failed to separate...
Defendant Galan was convicted with the possession and distribution of child pornography and now has to pay restitution. He believes that the district court made a mistake when it failed to separate...
A California state Court of Appeals has overturned the sentence of a San Mateo man who was 16 years old when he took part in a gas station robbery and was convicted of first-degree murder (Penal Code section 187) and sentenced to life without parole.
“The death penalty is a lie, a misguided mistake born of anger and frustration. Capital punishment has become a perverse monument to inequality, to how some lives matter and others do not. It is a violent example of how we protect and value the rich and abandon and devalue the poor. The death penalty is a grim, disturbing shadow formed by the legacy of racial apartheid and bias against the poor that condemns the disfavored among us, but corrupts us all. It’s the perverse symbol elected officials use to strengthen their ‘tough on crime’ reputations and distract us from confronting the causes of violence. It is finally the enemy of grace, redemption and all of us who recognize that each person is more than their worse act.”