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Gavin Newsom Orders New DNA Test In Controversial Death Row Case
- Thread starter SolidSnakex
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Being pro-death penalty is shitty enough, now imagine being against finding out of someone is actually guilty before you kill them
Her death penalty arguments were always incoherent. This is some Calvins Twins Horse Fighting Deathmatch You Have To Laugh levels of politics
shes a cop bro.
But, beats fascism so... that outweighs it for 4 years.
I was high on her as a candidate until I started hearing more stories like this. Verges on disqualifying as a Democratic candidate for president in 2020 to be honest. This in particular is disgusting, I don't support the death penalty in any situation (it's barbarism!) but in death penalty cases every possible appeal and piece of evidence for the defendant should be admitted. Harris refusing advanced DNA testing here is despicable.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ONmzrXS2a4L48545M2I6OoerTVXCSRk-SQFymU7sQPr4A
I can't find why it was refused
The reasoning is that every inmate would submit appeal after appeal after appeal on frivolous grounds, so there's a process to properly file appeals. Cooper failed to do so (in a 30+ year old case) and AG Harris's office didn't consider it. After journalists took up the story and dug into it, bringing the weakness of the 30+ year old case to light, Harris reconsidered and urged Govs. Brown/Newsom to sign off on the DNA testing.
I believe Newsom is just following through on the order, since Brown left office, so technically, this was under Jerry Brown's watch, and Newsom is just agreeing with it, and pushing it through.
Brown also had a good relationship with Newsom, so he may have purposely left it to him to finish the job, so he'd get the headline since he was on his way out anyways.
It's almost like her actions and past say that she's a bad person who put her personal career ahead of doing the right thing and supporting forward thinking policy and criminal justice reform and he attitude now is all just empty words without any reason to trust them in any way.
funny how some clown can do whatever the fuck he wants as a private citizen and win the presidency
meanwhile all these politicians pasts can haunt them
it's almost like one party's base only wants someone who's willing to hurt the poors and minorities and the other has standards
I don't know, but it's way too common for prosecutors out there to fight against this stuff. Just google something like "prosecuter refuses DNA test" and you'll get a LOT of similiar stories. I think a lot of it is a law enforcement us vs. them "team" thing, not wanting to muck about with established convictions.
Was she publicly asking for it while still CA AG?
"The Shield" probably had the best illumination of the forces tugging both directions in situations like this I've seen in media, as the manpower required to address those older cases will directly shift resources away from current police/prosecutorial work and make people involved hesitant to turn over stones.
Here's an AP piece from last May- http://www.capradio.org/articles/20...lifornia-should-test-dna-of-condemned-inmate/
It seems like this case wasn't considered anything special until the media attention came up, which makes sense if the denial of new testing was on procedural grounds and was going to require the Governor to intervene.
I remember reading the NYTimes story on this case... crazy stuff
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/17/opinion/sunday/kevin-cooper-california-death-row.html
That makes it sound less like some evil conspiracy involving the Dem presidential frontrunner....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/17/opinion/sunday/kevin-cooper-california-death-row.html
That makes it sound less like some evil conspiracy involving the Dem presidential frontrunner....
Not that I have anything against Harris, but she did this after being out of the DA office. Wonder if she did this as a political play, to prevent this from blowing up in the future.
Thankfully, this isn't getting a man killed.
It looks like this is the sort of thing would be auto-denied without any real attention paid to it and which you'd want deliberately want handled extra-judicially in order to avoid precedent.
If the conviction is overturned that means the prosecutor retroactively lost which means they lose face.