Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
A judge condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systemic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights...600 cases handled by a corrupt technician were dismissed.
In 2015, she opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving officers.
She refused to support statewide standards regulating the use of body-worn cameras by police officers.
When a federal judge in Orange County ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional in 2014, Ms. Harris appealed. In a public statement, she made the bizarre argument that the decision “undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants.”
She supported prosecution of parents of habitually truant children, despite concerns that it would disproportionately affect low-income people of color.
She also defended Johnny Baca’s conviction for murder even though judges found a prosecutor presented false testimony at the trial. She relented only after a video of the oral argument received national attention and embarrassed her office.
Kevin Cooper a death row inmate whose trial was infected by racism and corruption. He sought advanced DNA testing to prove his innocence, but Ms. Harris opposed it. (After The New York Times’s exposé of the case went viral, she reversed her position.)