Court Rejects Jerry Brown’s Clemency Orders For 3 More California Killers
LAPPL News Watch
December 31, 2018
The California Supreme Court this week rejected three more of Gov. Jerry Brown’s recommendations to commute sentences of longtime prison inmates who he believed had reformed behind bars, including a Sacramento man who beat a man to death in 1997.
The court in recent weeks now has denied 10 of Brown’s clemency actions, the first time it has exercised that power in half a century.
The latest denials followed Brown’s annual Christmas Eve clemency actions that included 143 pardons and 131 commutations. Nine of the 10 inmates whose commutations were rejected had been convicted of participating in homicides.
Brown’s clemency actions are part of his effort to rethink prison sentencing in his second run as California governor.
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