Word: garcetti
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District Attorney Gil Garcetti seemed to anticipate the scrutiny his announcement would attract, acknowledging in a press release the "deep public concern" about the death-penalty decision in the Simpson case but asserting that the decision had been made "independent of this concern." Yet that bland avowal, combined with a stated intention to comment no further until after the trial, invited immediate speculation that public concern -- or, more specifically, the concern of one potential juror who might create a hung jury -- was indeed Garcetti's paramount consideration. "I'm not suprised," says Wendy Alderson, a prominent Palm Springs jury consultant...
...recent episode from Somerset, Pennsylvania -- there is good reason to be unnerved? A breeding ground of poverty and broken families and drugs and guns and violence, real or just pictured, has brought forth a violent generation. "We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system," says Gil Garcetti, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, whose biggest headache, after the O.J. trial, is the city's youth gangs. "We should replace it with one that both protects society from violent juvenile criminals and efficiently rehabilitates youths who can be saved -- and can differentiate between...
...some experienced offenders, the prospect of jail can make a real difference in their decisions about what crimes they are willing to commit. L.A.'s Garcetti recalls the calculating questions of a teen who raised his hand when the district attorney appeared at a detention center last April. "If I kill someone," the kid asked, "can I be executed...
...this age, no," said Garcetti...
...took a hammering. In one instance, Simpson's lawyers were rebuffed when they tried to punish prosecutors for seeking evidence against Simpson from testimony in a grand jury investigating his friend Al ("A.C.") Cowlings, the driver of the fleeing white Bronco. The defense was responding to District Attorney Gil Garcetti's earlier statement that his team would not ignore "other evidence that comes out that assists us in another case...