After being recalled, Pamela Price remains in the spotlight due to a controversial case where her office sought a sentencing enhancement that a judge dismissed. The enhancement was connected to the 2020 murder of Oakland investment banker Jamal Thomas. Evidence emerged suggesting that Price had pressured an attorney for political donations while implying that not contributing could lead to harsher sentencing for Thomas. The judge deemed Price’s actions akin to extortion, indicating a serious lack of fairness and proper procedural understanding in her office.
Judge Reardon seemed to believe that this was something along the lines of an extortion attempt, highlighting fairness issues in Price's actions.
I’d say this is what happens when you put folks in charge of things when they don’t know how it works, and they don’t know what the guardrails are.
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