Convicted felons may soon be pouring out of prison and onto California’s already crime-ridden streets thanks to a law ratified in September 2020 by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Manhattan Institute fellow and essayist Heather Mac Donald noted in the Wall Street Journal Monday that because of AB 2542, the so-called California Racial Justice Act , “every felon serving time in the state’s prisons and jails can now retroactively challenge his conviction and sentencing on the ground of systemic bias.”
“To prevail, the incarcerated prisoner need not show that the police officers, prosecutors, judge or jurors in his case were motivated by racism or that his proceedings were unfair,” wrote Mac Donald. “If he can demonstrate that in the past, criminal suspects of his race were arrested, prosecuted or sentenced more often or more severely than members of other racial groups, he will be entitled to a new trial or sentence.”
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