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Efty Sharony filed a whistleblower claim alleging that three months after she called out conditions in L.A. juvenile halls, she was fired from her state oversight job and replaced by someone less qualified.
An L.A. County judge approved a plan to move roughly 100 juveniles out of troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, which has been the sight of violence, drug overdoses and a riot in the past two years.
The move streamlines the potential path to freedom for the brothers who have served more than 35 years in prison since being sentenced for killing their parents with shotguns in 1989.
A judge’s decision to reduce the Menendez brothers’ sentence for killing their parents in 1989 enables a parole board to hear their case. Gov. Gavin Newsom could still intervene.
Erik and Lyle Menendez received a chance at freedom after more than 35 years in prison Tuesday, with a judge resentencing the brothers after relatives testified it was time for them to come home.
Decisions by L.A. prosecutors to charge only four people — out of more than 340 people arrested — have revived anger over how authorities handled protests at USC and UCLA last year.
A judge ruled Friday that a resentencing hearing for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez can go forward next week, potentially clearing a path to parole decades after they killed their parents.
Multiple federal prosecutors in Los Angeles submitted resignations after U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli offered a plea agreement to an L.A. County sheriff’s deputy who had already been convicted of using excessive force, sources told The Times.
Los fiscales de Los Ángeles deben ahora agilizar el archivo de los casos de delitos graves relacionados con delitos sexuales o violencia familiar, en medio de una acumulación de casos penales.
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L.A. prosecutors must now expedite filing of felony cases involving sex crimes or family violence, amid a backlog of criminal cases.
