June 2015
After a long battle with the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office, and following the recent granting of our client's petition for certificate of rehabilitation, the California Department of Justice has terminated our San Mateo County client's requirement to register as a sex offender pursuant to California Penal Code section 290.
“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.”
