June 2016
In San Francisco Federal District Court, our client was potentially facing being charged with several felony charges yet was only convicted of a violation of 18 U.S.C § 641 – (Misdemeanor Theft of Government Property). After aggressive negotiations with the United States District Attorney's Office, client was sentenced to probation with no prison time.
“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.”
