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De junio 5, voters in Los Angeles County will select from 6 candidates the next District Attorney to replace Steve Cooley. The District Attorney prosecutes felony and misdemeanor crimes, including decisions involving the death penalty, life, and life without the possibility of parole, that occur within the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, the largest local prosecutor’s office in the United States.
According to California’s Public Policy Institute, African Americans are dramatically more likely to be imprisoned than are other groups. Among adult men in 2010, African Americans were incarcerated at a rate of 5,525 para 100,000, en comparación con 1,146 for Latinos, 671 for non-Latino whites, y 43 for Asians. Among women, African Americans were incarcerated at a rate of 342 para 100,000, en comparación con 57 for Latinas, 66 for non-Latina whites, y 5 for Asians.
133 death judgments, o 49 percent of the L.A. County’s total, have been against black defendants. The county has handed down 43 death judgments against black defendants for killing white victims and two death judgments against white defendants for killing black victims. Black defendants, additionally, are serving 45 percent of the county’s life-without-parole sentences.
Lunes, De junio 4, the candidates themselves will be on the Front Page to make their case to African American voters, but today, we here from some of Los Angeles’ most respected criminal defense attorneys–the lawyers who argue against the D.A. in what we as voters should be looking for in the next District Attorney.
PERSONAS
NANA GYAMFI
A graduate of UCLA’s Law School, desde 1994, Nana Gyamfi has been a criminal defense attorney. In addition to being an attorney, Nana is a professor of Pan African Studies at Cal State Los Angeles.
Correo electrónico: nanagyamfi@aol.com
JAAYE PERSON-LYNN
En 29, Jaaye persona-Lynn es un graduado de la Universidad de Hampton y de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Howard. Actualmente, trabaja para el L.A. La Oficina del Defensor Público.
Correo electrónico: jpersonlynn@gmail.com
Twitter: @jaayeesq
JAMON R. HICKS
Jamon R. Hicks practica la ley en las áreas de litigio civil y defensa penal, en representación de los demandantes en los tribunales estatales y federales para la Firma Cochran. Su experiencia en litigios civiles implica homicidio culposo, lesiones personales graves, y la policía de la mala conducta de los casos. También ha litigado numerosos casos de delitos graves y delitos menores criminales tales como intento de asesinato, asaltos a los oficiales de paz, amenazas terroristas, conducir bajo la influencia, materia de drogas y posesión de armas. El Sr.. Hicks recibió su licenciatura con honores de la Universidad de California, Berkeley en 2001 y su J.D. de la Escuela de Derecho Loyola en 2004.
Teléfono: (323) 931-6200
Correo electrónico: jhicks@cochranfirm.com
Mayo 28, 2012 en 7:05 al
I’m leaning toward voting for Danette Meyers for L.A. County district attorney. 1) She’s female, so she’d be the first to hold the post. That’s good because we need more women in these roles. 2) She’s also black and seems to be tough but somewhat fair. 3) She seems to be qualified with 25+ years experience and semi-decent compared t0 others. She goes after non-whites hard so I like this. I’m doing a little more research to be sure. In the alternative, I might go with Lacey. I’ll know for sure when I listen next Monday to them on KJLH and see how they come across, what they are talking about and what they’re all about. But my choice is definitely between Meyers and Lacey as of right now.
One thing I discovered by researching the candidates on my own is that Danette Meyers is the female district attorney who prosecuted crazy Lindsay Lohan. Good for her. But she didn’t seem very hard on Lohan. And I wonder if Meyes just used this celeb case to get her face out there and to step up into this role.
There was a shown down in the courtroom on TMZ that I saw between she (Meyers) and Lohan’s attorney Shawn Holley (former public defender and attorney who worked with the legend Johnnie Cochran).
De todos modos, Lohan should still be sitting in jail right now, the only reason why she’s gotten so many breaks is because she has a great attorney (Holley) and because Lohan is a white woman with money. If Lohan was an African-American woman in all that constant trouble, ella habría estado bajo la cárcel por ahora.
Échale un vistazo aquí:
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=5431f1ac-15e3-4bf8-aa04-0618fa7eae02
Mayo 28, 2012 en 7:09 al
Mi mal….Yo escribí en el post anterior…que Meyers va después “no blancos” duro, pero la intención de escribir que ella va después “no negros” duro…
No necesitamos a alguien que es sólo en encerrar a los negros a toda costa y para avanzar su carrera. Es necesario que haya alternativas a las cárceles.
Mayo 28, 2012 en 11:34 al
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