Sunday’s statement by LA County’s district attorney follows his move Friday to back away from two of his controversial directives.
sentencing about “extremely troubling statements she made about her case, the resolution of it and the young girl that she harmed.”
“If we knew about her disregard for the harm she caused, we would have handled this case differently. The complex issues and facts of her particular case were unusual and I should have treated them that way. This change in policy will allow us the space to do that moving forward,” the district attorney said in his statement.
In the statement issued Sunday night, Gascón said the office has “now implemented policies to create a different pathway for outlier cases while simultaneously creating protections to prevent these exceptions from becoming the rule.” Gascón wrote in the statement Sunday that a prosecutor must put a request in writing when they want to “deviate from our core principles” and that the request will go to a committee “staffed by my most trusted advisors, who must evaluate the case and approve any requests to pursue an exception.” He wrote that it will ensure “that only in the rarest of cases, where our system has failed, will we diverge from our principles.
A judge ruled mostly in favor of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County last February, but subsequently put the case on hold while Gascón appeals. A trial date is scheduled to be set for the case in April.
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