California murderer is sentenced to life imprisonment thanks to the policy of George Gascon, the embarrassed Los Angeles County District Attorney of. It was released in just eight years. He is currently being charged with the murder of a homeless man.
Victor Bibiano, 30, was arrested last month for the April 16 murder of Mario Rodriguez, 42, who was found deadly shot at a homeless camp in Pacoima. rice field.
The murder occurred less than a year after Bibiano was released from prison,reported Los Angeles Daily News.
Viviano is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for double murder in special circumstances, attempted murder, shooting firearms in a dwelling, or strengthening guns and gangs. Was there.
He was convicted in adult court in 2009 when he and two other men killed two rival gang members in 2009 and attempted to murder a third. I was 17 years old.
With Proposal 57, approved by voters in 2016, Bibiano, who was a minor at the time of conviction, was subject to a juvenile transfer hearing. According to the report, a court to decide whether he should be retried as an adult.
In 2020, Bibiano's conviction was invalidated under Proposal 57, and his proceeding was sent to the juvenile court awaiting a transfer hearing. However, when Gascon became DA in December, he immediately banned the defendant from trying again in adult court for the crimes committed in his childhood.
In May 2021, Gascon's special aide, Alisa Brea, appeared in the juvenile court on his behalf, informing the judge that DA's office would not participate in the transfer hearing.
Cathy Caddy, one of the victims' families, pointed out in the newspaper, according to a memo from the Warrant and Appeals Department . California District Attorneys law requires courts to conduct transfer hearings.
The juvenile system does not contain people over the age of 26, and Bibiano was in his late twenties at the time, so the judge handling his case had no choice but to release him. There wasn't.
Unless Gascon can prove in a statement released at the outlet that Bibiano did not benefit from juvenile rehab services at the time he committed the crime, his office would be He argued that he could not seek a transfer to an adult court.
"At that time, Bibiano had no previous misconduct record. If so, in the murder case, he had no serious breaches while in prison and presented other confidential mitigation information, so we decided we couldn't handle the burden, "DA said. ..
Gascon also pointed out that evidence suggests that Bibiano "did not personally shoot or kill" Rodriguez in April.
"We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to Mario Rodriguez's loved ones," he said, adding that a temporary kill was killed between the robbery and the drug trade.
The report is at the top of the campaign to recall Phase 1. There is a DA about what his critics described as a soft policy against his crimes.
Gascon allegedly killed two Elmonte police officers during probation byJustin William Flores last week. case.
Gascon defended the treatment of his office in the Flores case, claiming that his previous history did not contain evidence of violence.
Gascon acknowledged the swell of anger directed at his policy in a statement to the Los Angeles Daily News dealing with the Bibiano case.
"I know people are angry, and I'm angry too, "he said. "But you can't use a single tragedy to make a policy. One failure doesn't doubt the possibility of another. Previously life imprisonment, including Mr. Bibiano's former co-defendant. In other Los Angeles cases where the boy sentenced to imprisonment was released, the results were overwhelmingly positive.
Gascon also intends to "play politics in this and other tragedy." Declared not.