跟进：法律基金会宣布挑战纽森548名死囚减刑 检察官声援、拟向州最高法院递件

加利福尼亚州 Sacramento 县 Sacramento 市，公益法律组织刑事司法法律基金会（Criminal Justice Legal Foundation）11月12日下午在州议会大厦西台阶举行记者会，宣布对州长 Gavin Newsom 将全州548名死囚减为终身监禁且不得假释的决定发起法律挑战，洛杉矶县地方检察官 Nathan Hochman 与橙县地方检察官 Todd Spitzer 等检察官同日公开声援。

基金会由总裁兼首席执行官 Anne Marie Schubert 领导，与会者还包括犯罪受害者组织 Crime Victims United、加州和平官员研究协会、加州地方检察官协会、加州首席缓刑官协会与加州州警长协会的代表，以及来自全州各地的受害者家属。基金会表示，设立这场记者会是为在州长决定中没有发声机会的受害者提供发声平台。

基金会在声明中表示，纽森的决定无视加州选民一再在投票中肯定死刑的意愿：2012年选民否决了废除死刑的第34号提案，2016年又否决第62号提案、转而通过加快死刑程序的第66号提案。基金会称，这一覆盖全部死囚的做法越过了陪审团的裁决与法院的判决。

Hochman 在声明中说，他坚定支持基金会挑战这一决定，并称在为受害者家属办案时，检察官曾向家属承诺让事实与法律在法庭上走完程序。他办公室提供的数据显示，548人中约382人曾被判多项重罪，其减刑须经加州最高法院批准；其中162人来自洛杉矶县，包括被称为「Southside Slayer」的 Chester Turner 与被称为「Hollywood Ripper」的 Michael Gargiulo。

Spitzer 当天上午在橙县与受害者家属举行记者会，表示将向加州最高法院递交文件反对州长令，并计划下周一（11月16日）提交动议。他表示，按法律应由死囚本人首先提出减刑请求，州长没有走完这些程序；他希望最高法院暂停执行、逐案举行听证，并把决定留给下任州长 Xavier Becerra。

纽森11月5日宣布这一减刑决定时在公开信中表示，国家批准的处决与加州的价值观不相容。加州自2006年1月17日以来没有执行过死刑，纽森2019年曾下令暂停执行。纽森任期将于明年1月4日结束，382人的减刑能否在其任内完成，取决于州最高法院的审查进度。（来源：刑事司法法律基金会）

Follow-up: Legal Foundation Announces Challenge to Newsom's 548 Death-Row Commutations as Prosecutors Prepare Supreme Court Filings

In Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a public-interest legal organization, held a press conference on the west steps of the State Capitol on the afternoon of November 12 to announce a legal challenge to Governor Gavin Newsom's decision to commute the sentences of all 548 people on California's death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman and Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer were among the prosecutors who publicly backed the challenge the same day.

The foundation, led by President and CEO Anne Marie Schubert, was joined by representatives of Crime Victims United, the Peace Officers Research Association of California, the California District Attorneys Association, the Chief Probation Officers of California and the California State Sheriffs Association, along with victims' family members from across the state. The foundation said the press conference was intended to give a voice to victims who were not heard in the governor's decision.

In its statement, the foundation said Newsom's decision disregards the will of California voters, who have repeatedly affirmed the death penalty at the ballot box: voters rejected Proposition 34, which would have abolished the death penalty, in 2012, rejected Proposition 62 in 2016 and instead approved Proposition 66 to reform and expedite the death penalty process. The foundation said the blanket action overrides jury verdicts and court judgments.

In a statement, Hochman said he stands firmly with the foundation in challenging the commutation, adding that when prosecutors bring cases on behalf of victims' families, they promise those families that the facts and the law will play out in a courtroom. According to his office, about 382 of the 548 cases involve people convicted of more than one felony, whose commutations require approval by the California Supreme Court, and 162 of the condemned inmates are from Los Angeles County, including Chester Turner, known as the "Southside Slayer," and Michael Gargiulo, known as the "Hollywood Ripper."

Spitzer held a press conference with victims' relatives in Orange County on Thursday morning, said he will file papers with the California Supreme Court opposing the governor's order, and plans to file a motion on Monday, November 16. He said that under the law the condemned inmate needs to make the request in the first instance, arguing the governor did not follow those processes, and said he hopes the Supreme Court will stay the commutations, hold hearings on an individual basis, and leave the decisions to the next governor, Xavier Becerra.

Announcing the commutations on November 5, Newsom wrote in an open letter that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California's values. California has not carried out an execution since January 17, 2006, and Newsom issued a moratorium on executions in 2019. Newsom's term ends on January 4, and whether the 382 commutations requiring court review can be completed before then depends on the California Supreme Court's review. (Source: Criminal Justice Legal Foundation)

来源：刑事司法法律基金会

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