I know just about enough Spanish to get in serious trouble. Hope that was close enough to ‘your state is my state’ so as not to offend all our brethren who are here illegally.
Jerry Brown Grants Pardons to Immigrants Facing Deportation Due to Criminal History
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s Christmas granted 143 pardons and 131 commutations for Christmas, including a handful of refugees and immigrants that he hopes to spare from deportation by scrubbing their criminal histories.
Brown also responded to the clemency request of Kevin Cooper — a death-row inmate convicted of killing four members of a Chino Hills, Calif., family at their home with a hatchet, knife and ice pick in 1983 after escaping from a nearby prison — by ordering new DNA tests on four pieces of evidence including the hatchet handle and sheath.
The California Supreme Court blocked Brown’s attempt to commute the sentence of Kenny Lee, convicted of robbing and murdering a cab driver in 1992. It’s the seventh time the court has stepped in to use its power to stop the outgoing governor from issuing sentence commutations for killers in recent weeks.
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