DA Gascón says he will consider prosecuting juveniles accused of crimes involving “severe violence” in adult court, a reversal of a policy that has drawn intense criticism and fueled efforts to recall him from office.
Gascon also was criticized for declining to seek to placein an adult prison. She sexually assaulted a child when she was 17. A judge sentenced Tubbs, now 26, to two years in a youth facility.
“We welcome the change, assuming it's truly a change,” he said. The ADDA has been strongly opposed to Gascón’s policies and has planned a vote on whether to support efforts to recall him from office.Siddall said he believed any policy change was a response by the DA to polls showing people increasingly worried about crime, and bad publicity about the Tubbs case.
Second, the DA said he expects to be handling more cases of juveniles sentenced in adult court as the result of an expected state Supreme Court ruling later this year.
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