January 2021
Placer County client convicted of a felony violation of Penal Code Section 4532(a)(1) – (Escape from Jail). The Placer County Superior Court granted our motion for early termination of probation, reduced the conviction to a misdemeanor and granted our petition for dismissed pursuant to Penal Code Section 1203.4.
“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.”
