{"id":5034,"date":"2021-01-14T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2021-01-15T10:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:08:03","slug":"san-diego-da-summer-stephan-takes-control-of-case-from-progressive-la-county-da-george-gascon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5034","title":{"rendered":"San Diego DA Summer Stephan takes control of case from progressive LA County DA George Gas\u0107on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Hannah Schmidtler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gas\u0107on ran on criminal justice reform, pushing for soft on crime policies. One of Gas\u0107on&#8217;s most controversial policies is eliminating sentencing enhancements. Sentencing enhancements allow prosecutors to bring up non-criminal circumstances that make the crime more serious. Gas\u0107on also plans to eliminate cash bail as well as prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty and from trying teenagers as adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gas\u0107on&#8217;s sentencing enhancement ban has faced criticism in a recent cop-killer case. Thirty-one year old Rhett Nelson, who is connected with multiple armed robberies, is also charged with two counts of murder. The victims are Dmitri Koltsov, a skateboarder, and Joseph Solano, an off-duty deputy. Los Angeles District Attorney Gas\u0107on\u2019s sentencing enhancement ban would allow the accused, Nelson, the possibility parole in 20 years for his murder charge by preventing the prosecutor from mentioning his history of armed robberies and his second murder charge. Summer Stephan, San Diego District Attorney, has been critical of Gas\u0107on&#8217;s sentencing enhancement ban and requested that her office take the case so that Nelson can be properly prosecuted and the victims can receive justice. \u00a0And in an unprecedented action, a superior court judge ruled to give Stephan control over the five armed robbery charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SummerStephan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SummerStephan<\/a> wins the motion and retakes prosecution of charges for alleged cop killer. This is how you protect <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/victims?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#victims<\/a> and prosecute in the interest of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/justice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#justice<\/a>. Great job! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/10News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@10news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qA1Czl0BdB\">https:\/\/t.co\/qA1Czl0BdB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Diego Deputy DAs (@SanDiegoDDAs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanDiegoDDAs\/status\/1348801147184705537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summer wrote to Gas\u0107on in harsh rebuke, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I do not want our San Diego County cases to be connected to any publicly-announced special directive that dismisses special circumstances and serious gun use allegations where your stated reason is &#8216;in the interest of justice,&#8217; when clearly the facts of this defendant\u2019s violent offenses show it is not.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert voiced similar concerns over Gas\u0107ons soft on crime policies, claiming that they are \u201cillegal and unconstitutional.\u201d In a letter to Gas\u0107on, she voiced that she will not allow Gason jurisdiction over crimes in her region as long as his progressive policies remain. &#8220;I will never grant you jurisdiction over any crimes that involve Sacramento County while these policies of yours remain in place.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Hannah Schmidtler Recently elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gas\u0107on ran on criminal justice reform, pushing for soft on crime policies. One of Gas\u0107on&#8217;s most controversial policies is eliminating sentencing enhancements. Sentencing enhancements allow prosecutors to bring up non-criminal circumstances that make the crime more serious. 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