Bay Area families rallied Saturday for the recall effort targeting Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, whose policy of seeking lighter sentences for violent offenders is blamed for stoking the area’s crime wave.
Relatives of seven homicide victims were part of the gathering outside an Oakland courthouse where family members accused Ms. Price of malfeasance, according to local CBS affiliate KPIX-TV.
Anna Tolentino skewered the county’s top prosecutor during the weekend rally for securing what she characterized as a meager plea deal against her son’s convicted killer, Sergio Morales-Jacquez. That sentence came in spite of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office saying it had petitioned Ms. Price’s office to charge the juvenile as an adult given his “extensive and violent criminal history.” The DA’s office denied the petition, the sheriff’s office said, and charged Morales-Jacquez as a juvenile in March.Morales-Jacquez is a suspect in the fatal shootings of high school-age brothers Jazy and Angel Sotelo Garcia in Oakland last October, according to court papers.
Once the county registrar approves the recall paperwork, the SAFE group will have 160 days to get signatures from 10% of registered voters in Alameda County — or about 98,000 people — in order to put their recall vote on a ballot.
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