DA accused of ‘extreme departure from California law’ with charges in 5-year-old girl’s murder
A radical California DA is under fire for going easy on three gangbangers charged with shooting a 5-year-old girl through the heart and killing her earlier this month.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price declined to add gun and gang enhancements to murder raps against the suspects — a “staggering” move which could significantly lessen their sentences.
“Not filing gun and gang enhancements in a case like this is an extreme departure from California criminal law practice,” veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor Jason Lustig told The Post. “It’s extreme.”
The Berkeley Scanner first reported the lack of enhancements alongside basic murder charges and called it a “break in precedent” and the “first time anything like it has happened in Alameda County” in such a serious case.
Enhancements to murder charges can mean the difference between a sentence of 15 to 25 years in prison and life without any possibility of parole.
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