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On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...
In the case, the district attorney was seeking the death penalty. During the guilt phase, Rojas was convicted of only 4 of the 9 charged homicides. During the penalty phase, the jury deadlocked on whether to impose the death penalty. After the hung jury, he ultimately pleaded guilty to unresolved counts in exchange for avoiding the death ...
The LAPD concluded that Lyga's shooting was "in policy" and not racially or improperly motivated. Within three days of the incident, the Gaines family retained attorney Johnnie Cochran and filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for US$25 million. The city eventually settled with Cochran for US$250,000.
A suspect has been charged in the Los Angeles shooting deaths of three homeless men and one other person at his home in San Dimas, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Monday.
Two former Los Angeles-area police detectives have been charged in the 2020 shooting of an unarmed man that left him paralyzed from the waist down, the district attorney said Wednesday. Former ...
Judy Clare Clarke (born 1952) is an American criminal defense attorney who has represented several high-profile defendants such as Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Joseph Edward Duncan, Zacarias Moussaoui, Jared Lee Loughner, Robert Gregory Bowers, Burford Furrow, Lisa Montgomery and Susan Smith.
Former Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Atty. Jim Clark is shown in 2016. ... a former high-ranking official in the Los Angeles city attorney's office for his alleged role in a Department of Water ...
George Gascón (born March 12, 1954) is an American attorney and former police officer who served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County from December 7, 2020 to December 3, 2024. A member of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Republican Party , [ 1 ] Gascón served as the district attorney of San Francisco from 2011 to 2019.