Law Practice,
Appellate Practice
Aug. 2, 2022
Eating the criminal justice reform elephant
Criminal justice change is not necessarily reform. Reform infers improvement. District Attorneys may be best to approach reform with a shovel, not a bulldozer. Start with a policy that prohibits peremptory challenges on jurors. That will end claims of racism in jury selection, both founded and unfounded.
District Attorneys recently have been voted out in liberal and conservative California counties - Chesa Boudin (D) in San Francisco and Tori Verber Salazar (R) in San Joaquin County. Verber Salazar did little to be progressive aside from claiming to be so. She publicly opposed the death penalty but took no action to remedy capital case injustices, thereby aggravating voters on both sides. Boudin, by contrast, went all in. Voters believed that his new bail and charging...
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