WOULD BE FALSE BECAUSE OF THE ELECTION? >> I DID. SURROUNDING THE NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN ALAMEDA COUNTY. >> PRICE IS SHAKING THINGS UP WITH EACH PASSING GATE AND WERE SEEING NEW INFORMATION ABOUT PLEA DEALS THAT FAVOR CRIMINALS WITH VICTIMS FEELING LIKE THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED JUSTICE. THE COURT RECORDS TELL THE STORY , APRIL 20 9, 2018, SUNDAY IS 2:00 P.M., CESAR GARCIA SPEED 70 MILES PER HOUR NORTHBOUND IN A RED SEDAN LIKE THIS ONE AND MAKES AN UNSAFE ROOT LANE CHANGE, SIDE SWIPING A CAR, AND SEVERAL PEOPLE SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES IN THE CRASH INCLUDING A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO LOST HER EIGHT-MONTH-OLD FETUS EDITS THE RESULT. GARCIA DITCHES THE CAR AND TRIES TO REPORT IT STOLEN. A FORMER ALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NANCY O'MALLEY CHARGED HIM WITH FELONY LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT AND FELONY RECKLESS DRIVING WITH SERIOUS INJURY, BUT THIS MONTH, NEW DA PAMELA PRICE OFFERED A DEAL. GARCIA PLED NO CONTEST TO VANDALISM AND GOT RELEASED WITH TIME SERVED JUST ONE YEAR IN COUNTY JAIL. >> PAMELA PRICE AND HER ADMINISTRATION ARE PUTTING CRIMINAL SUSPECTS BEFORE VICTIMS. >> CHARLIE WEIS AND BOMB RESIGNED FROM THE ALAMEDA COUNTY DAS OFFICE EFFECTIVE MARCH 17 BECAUSE "I NO LONGER FEEL CAPABLE OF A FILLING MIKE NICCO AND ETHICAL DUTIES AS A PROSECUTOR UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION." >> VICTIM STILL HAVE RIGHTS AND THOSE ARE BEING IGNORED AND FLAGRANTLY DISREGARDED AND IT IS REALLY SAD AND HARD TO WATCH IT HE DID NOT WANT TO BE PART OF THAT. >> THE HANDLING OF THAT CASE GETS WORSE. I HAVE LEARNED THROUGH MULTIPLE SOURCES THAT THE OFFICE DID NOT INFORM THE WOMAN WHO LOST THE BABY ABOUT THE PLEA DEAL OR REDUCED SENTENCE UNTIL AFTER IT WAS DONE. THE VICTIM IS DEVASTATED. SOURCES INSIDE THE DAS OFFICE SAY IT IS STATE BULB AT A VICTIM BE INFORMED ABOUT A COMING PLEA BARGAIN AND HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK AT SENTENCING. NEITHER OF THOSE HAPPENED. THE DEADLY HIT AND RUN CASE WAS TURNED SIMPLY AND TO VANDALISM. >> WHITE WAS THAT THE APPROPRIATE CHARGE? WHAT AM >> I MISSING. A SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SPECIALIZING IN CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE AND SAID, PRICES ON STAFF POINTED ME TO HIM AS SOMEONE WHO WOULD DEFEND HER POLICIES. >> >> THAT IS NOT A POLITICAL ENTITY PAMELA PRICE KIND OF THING, BUT THAT IS WHERE IT IS YEAH, WHY DID YOU DO THAT? >> THIS VICTIM FELT BAD ABOUT THIS. I FEEL FOR HER. SHE IS THINKING MY BABY WAS ONLY WORTH A VANDALISM CHARGE? >> YEAH. RIGHT. RIGHT. >> THAT >> IS TOUGH. I AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT. I WANTED TO ASK HER ABOUT THIS CASE AND MORE BUT SHE REFUSES TO BE >. >> MY VISION IS TO SERVE ALAMEDA COUNTY AS A MINISTER OF JUSTICE. >> AFTER HER OATH OF OFFICE IN JANUARY, ONE OF HER FIRST DIRECTIVES TO ATTORNEYS AND STAFF AS THEY MUST ADDRESS HER AS MADAME D.A. PRICE. >> WE WILL BE PROSECUTORS. WE WILL USE OUR POWER TO CHANGE LIVES AND NOT DESTROY THEM. SHE >> RELEASED HIS MEMO INSTRUCTING PROSECUTORS TO STOP USING SENTENCING ENHANCEMENTS WHICH BRING HIGHER PRISON TERMS. >> SHE IS SAYING WE WILL GET SOMEBODY ON ARMED ROBBERY. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO CHARGE THEM WITH. WE'RE GOING TO CHARGE THEM WITH ENHANCEMENT, A GOING ENHANCEMENT, GANG ENHANCEMENT, THINGS LIKE THAT, UNLESS IT IS WARRANTED, AND IT HAS TO BE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES. >> THAT IS IMPACTING HIGH-PROFILE CASES. PRICES THROWING OUT SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN A CASE WITH THREE NEW VICTIMS, INCLUDING A NINE-YEAR-OLD FROM 1988. >> IT MEANS THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL PUNISHMENT FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS A SERIAL KILLER BY DEFINITION. AND THAT HE COMMITTED THOSE MURDERS, AT LEAST MOTIVATED IN ONE OR MORE BY SEXUAL ASSAULT. >> THE PARENTS OF A TODDLER KILLED BY A STRAY BULLET DURING A GUN BATTLE ARE CONCERNED PRICE WILL THROW OUT GANG ENHANCEMENTS IN THEIR CASE. >> AND DO IT AS A KNEE-JERK REACTION WITHOUT PROPER INFORMATION IS I THINK SAD FOR THE FAMILY AND I THINK CAN RESULT IN INJUSTICE AND CAN RESULT IN MORE PEOPLE GETTING HER MORE GUN BATTLES DOWN THE FREEWAY, RIGHT? >> LAST THURSDAY, A JUDGE REJECTED THE PLEA DEAL FOR A PERSON ACCUSED OF THREE MURDERS AND FACING 75 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON IF CONVICTED. PRICE OFFERED 15 YEARS ON A SINGLE VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. >> WHAT THAT TELLS THE COMMUNITY IS THREE YOUNG BLACK MEN WERE MURDERED AND EACH OF THEIR LIVES IS WORTH FIVE YEARS EACH. >> ALL THIS HAS PROMPTED A PUSH TO RECALL PRICE, INCLUDING FROM VICTIMS RIGHTS GROUPS. USAGE SHE SHOULD BE RECALLED THAT SHE SAID SHE SHOULD BE RECALLED? DO YOU STILL BELIEVE THAT? I >> STILL BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE IN. I DO NOT SEE ANY CHANGE. >> UNOFFICIAL RECALL NEEDS 92,000 SIGNATURES. SHE LOST HER SON TO A STRAY BULLET DURING A 2010 GANG SHOOTING. NO CHARGES WERE FILED, EVEN THOUGH SHE KNOWS THE IDENTITY OF THE KILLER. >> IT IS A TERM AT LOSS FOR ME. I CAN IMAGINE IF YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO IS ALREADY IN JAIL AND THEY GET A FREE PASS WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE DID NOT GET A FREE PASS. >> VETERAN PROSECUTORS ARE NOT GETTING A FREE PASS UNDER PAMELA PRICE. SHE MADE HER INTENTIONS CLEAR IN THIS SPEECH TWO MONTHS AGO TO AN ANTI-POLICE PROJECT RALLY POSTED TO INSTAGRAM. >> YES, IT IS A NEW DAY. MOST OF THEM FOLKS IS GONE. I'M WORKING ON THE REST. OK. >> I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT EVERY PROSECUTOR IN THAT OFFICE IS NO GOOD. >> RIGHT. THAT IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE SHE BELIEVES THAT WE ARE CRIMINALS, RACISTS, BUT SHE DOES NOT SUPPORT WHO WE ARE AS HUMANS IN THE CAREER CHOICES WE HAVE MADE AND DEDICATED OUR LIVES TO. >> WE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT PAMELA PRICE HAS PLACED SEVEN ATTORNEYS ON LEAVE, FIRED ONE COME AT 10 RESIGNED, FOUR RETIRED, 22 EXPENSE PROSECUTORS GONE OUT OF AN OFFICE WITH 135 ATTORNEYS. ARE YOU HAVING AN EXIT INTERVIEW? >> NO. IF YOU HAD >> A CHANCE TO TELL PAMELA PRICE SOMETHING, WHAT WOULD YOU TELL HER? >> I WOULD EMPLOY HER TO SEE BEYOND HERSELF AND IMPLORE HER TO LEARN ABOUT WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT, BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO HEAD AN OFFICE WHERE YOU HAVE ETHICAL AND LEGAL DUTIES TO UPHOLD AND YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE AND YOU NEED TO ABIDE BY THEM. >> CHARLIE WEIS AND BOCK HAS STARTED WORKING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO DAS OFFICE. I HAVE PLACED A STANDING REQUEST FOR INTERVIEW WITH D.A. PRICE, I WILL TALK WITH HER
The nice lady, Charlie (sp?), in this interview helped me and my partner at the time when we were victims of a pretty heinous crime. She was incredibly nice to us during the adjudication process and my partner at the time was very on edge during it as we had to testify in court and whatnot. This was a couple of years ago, under the previous DA. What a loss for Alameda county, she gave consolation to us, which isn't her job, and followed up with us to see how we were doing afterwards, also not her job. Shame to see her leave.
What’s going on with these plea deals? Seems like she’s turning this into a toxic place.
I’m honestly curious on what Price thinks she’s doing. I think all the residents deserve to hear her words on why she’s taken this approach.
That is wild. Didn’t know shit was this bad.
She’s unfit for the job. Recall her.
Price's actions are deliberate. She knew she couldn't actually get legitimately get her reforms done, so she just took a sledgehammer to the entire department.
Don't need to worry about making a compelling case for reduced penalties and charging when you instead force all your staff out so nothing can be done at a rate that doesn't trip speedy trial provisions anyway.
Fuck. This.
Recall now.
I'm amazed and ashamed that we elect people like this into office.
I never thought we would need to point out that a dead baby should not equal a 'vandalism' charge.
"Madame" DA Price has got to go.