"When Pamela Price was sworn in as Alameda County District Attorney in 2023, she promised a reckoning with the criminal legal system's injustices, including police and prosecutorial misconduct. And she brought a new philosophy to the DA's office, focusing on rehabilitation instead of punishment for youth, and reducing the use of prosecutorial tools like enhancements additional charges that add time to defendants' sentences."
"In a ruling in Dykes' case, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria wrote that there was strong evidence that, in prior decades, Alameda County prosecutors committed Batson violations when prosecutors strike potential jurors based on race, gender, or ethnicity in violation of the 14th Amendment guarantees of equal protection and due process. The prosecutors were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically excluding Jewish and African American jurors in death penalty cases, Chhabria wrote."
Pamela Price took office as Alameda County District Attorney in 2023 and prioritized confronting police and prosecutorial misconduct. She shifted office policy toward rehabilitation for youth and reduced use of prosecutorial enhancements. A federal judge overturned Curtis Ervin's death sentence due to prosecutorial misconduct from a 1991 trial. Ernest Dykes was resentenced and released after discovery of additional misconduct evidence. Judge Vince Chhabria found strong evidence of Batson violations and a pattern of excluding Jewish and African American jurors in death-penalty cases. Price launched a resentencing unit that filed dozens of resentencing motions and sought reductions in many capital sentences.
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