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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday, Nov. 8:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57 passed\u003c/a> with strong support from voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Friday, Oct. 7:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/1b.-Marvin-outside-CMF_CloseUp.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marvin Mutch went to prison at 19 for a murder he swears he didn't commit. He spent four decades striving to prove his innocence and win his freedom. But it would take a major shift in California's criminal justice system for Mutch to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/a>' investigates Mutch's conviction and chronicles his and the California Justice System's evolution over a lifetime in prison.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 42 in 1976, he said it would provide \"certain, clear punishment for crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Legislature with little controversy. It created a \u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2883&context=facpubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">determinate sentencing structure in California\u003c/a>, scrapping most open-ended prison terms and instead giving inmates a set release date. It was the first major shift toward a more prescribed approach to punishment in California, one that lawmakers and voters embraced wholeheartedly in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 40 years later, Brown believes that signing the law was a mistake -- and he's asking voters to approve a measure that would move California back toward the system it abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> could allow many inmates to serve shorter prison terms than the ones handed down in court when they were sentenced -- if the state parole board judges them suitable for release. The governor believes the change will make prisons and the public safer by giving inmates an incentive to improve themselves while they are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286577767\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if anything, this is the greatest step we could take for public safety in California,\" he said, noting that nearly all inmates are eventually released from prison. \"We want to make sure when they get out, they've gone through a real program of education and rehabilitation and to make that happen, you can't force them, but you can incentivize them by the possibility of earlier parole.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nProsecutors disagree and are campaigning vociferously against Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's dangerous for California.' \u003ccite>Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Our hands will be tied,\" said Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten. \"What a judge imposes will no longer be significant -- and state bureaucrats, who are not subject to elections, who are not accountable to the public, will be making decisions about who does and who does not get released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's dangerous for California,\" added Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 42 and a 'Hog Wild' Legislature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Brown signed the determinate sentencing law, criminal offenders were sentenced to broad, unspecified prison terms. A panel appointed by the governor, then called the Adult Authority, had immense discretion to decide how long an inmate should stayed locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system in place was supposed to allow the release of inmates when they were deemed rehabilitated and ready to re-enter society. But critics -- mostly civil liberties groups -- thought the policy gave too much power to the law enforcement-dominated Adult Authority and resulted in disproportionately long sentences for people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he listened to those critics when he decided to sign SB 42. As he signed the bill in 1976, he told reporters that \"the concept of rehabilitation is seriously changed in our law by allowing the concept of a determinate sentence for a crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeY-9y3IkVM&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He misjudged the law's impacts, Brown said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it would give certainty, it would be more focused, people would know what their punishment is, and that would act as a great deterrent,\" he said. \"Of course, I didn't really think about the fact that when you tell somebody they get out at this date, between then and the time they arrive in prison they have no incentive to take classes, to avoid the gangs, to really scrupulously follow the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has spent much of his third and fourth terms as governor working to fix California's troubled prison system, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Judges-tell-state-to-free-thousands-of-inmates-3251503.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been under federal court oversight for a decade\u003c/a> because conditions inside were ruled to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so crowded and chaotic they violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment\u003c/a>. Brown believes Proposition 57 may be the final major policy change needed to get the state out from under court control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't blame SB 42 alone for the prison overcrowding. Brown also lays responsibility at the feet of lawmakers and voters, who approved dozens of \"tough on crime\" sentencing laws in the years that followed. Chief among those laws are \"criminal enhancements\" -- additional time tacked on to prison sentences because of an offender's criminal history or the nature of their crime. For example, a five-year sentence could grow to 20 years if the offender is a member of a gang or had a gun in their possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First the Legislature goes hog wild -- I'd say criminal legislation on steroids for 30 years,\" the governor said. \"And then at the end of that the Supreme Court says prison conditions are terrible, it's overcrowded, people are committing suicide, they have unconstitutional medical care, you've got to take out thousands and thousands of people from prison,\" he said. \"We want to do that in a rational way, and that's what Proposition 57 attempts to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 wouldn't do away with sentence enhancements, but it would let the state's parole board decide to release an inmate before he or she serves the time tacked on by enhancements -- if an offender is deemed ready to leave prison. That provision would apply only to inmates serving crimes considered nonviolent under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown estimates it would apply to around 1,100 inmates a year; prosecutors say the number is closer to 16,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor notes that inmates are already being released under this process -- in 2014, a federal court ordered the state to start releasing some prisoners after they served their primary sentence, excluding enhancements. The ballot measure would expand that pool of prisoners to anyone convicted of a \"nonviolent\" crime under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one of the major problems with Proposition 57, said Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney. She said the definition of violent crimes in the measure, which includes murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping \u003ca href=\"http://www.stop57.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but not offenses like assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery or hostage-taking\u003c/a>, is too narrow and that potentially dangerous felons could qualify for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118815\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. Below, you can hear Governor Brown's response in a voicemail he left for Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims \" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-400x539.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-960x1295.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I go out to the community and I say, 'How many people in this room think domestic violence is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands. 'How many people think assault with a deadly weapon is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands,\" she said. \"Those are all nonviolent under the penal code.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown calls those claims a \"complete red herring,\" noting that some of the state's most notorious inmates -- including Charles Manson -- were convicted before the determinate-sentencing law and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/california-charles-manson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could be paroled today\u003c/a>. He said the list of violent crimes was created by a ballot measure supported by the District Attorneys Association and that prosecutors have wide discretion when they file charges against defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, Brown argued, the parole board will take into account the facts of each case and the offender's behavior while in prison when weighing whether to release them -- which is why Manson remains behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole commissioners making these judgments now will have a better sense of what serves public safety than a court did years or decades ago, he argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just saying that what they decide on the day of sentencing, that is not all perfect. It's not omniscient, and over time -- five, eight, 10, 15, 20 years -- why not have a group of wise people saying, 'You know what? I think this inmate's ready for release'?\" he said. \"I want the parole board to look into the eyes of that parolee, listen where it's appropriate to the victims or the district attorney, and make an informed judgment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schubert is worried the parole board won't have a chance to look in the eyes of an inmate or hear from victims and prosecutors directly. She said many of the inmates approved for early release in recent years because of the federal court order never saw a parole commissioner -- their files were reviewed by deputy commissioners, who made a decision without ever talking to the inmate, prosecutors or victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the governor's initiative that says it's a parole board\" reviewing the cases, Schubert said. \"What we already know from the governor's early releases is that it's not a hearing, it's a letter. We get to write a letter. That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he understands that concern and will work to address it if Proposition 57 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's something to be decided and maybe we'll take the more serious inmates and maybe put them through live parole,\" he said. \"I understand if it's just administrative, on paper, that's different than, as I said, looking into their eyes. ... I'll try to get the best, safest, most humanly effective process as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cleansing the Augean Stables'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second provision of Proposition 57 could have even wider-ranging implications. It would allow the state prisons department to revamp the system for awarding \"good time credits\" to inmates who participate in programs such as drug rehabilitation or schooling. Currently, there's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/Credits_Memo.pdf\">patchwork of laws and regulations\u003c/a> governing the credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I challenge you to find in California someone that can explain perfectly the credit system. I don't think they exist,\" Brown said. \"You can get credit 15 percent of the time a third of the time, 20 percent of the time, half the time, day for day -- but it keeps changing. You can get this much credit for this crime, but then in 1990 it was this, in 1995 it was that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Proposition 57 would \"cleanse the \u003ca href=\"http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augean stables\u003c/a>\" and allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a new system through a public regulatory process that would include prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement and any other member of the public who wants to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. ... I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.' \u003ccite>San Quentin Prison inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Curtis Roberts is one of the inmates barred from earning credits -- even though he's participated in programs during his entire 22 years in state prison. He's the type of prisoner supporters of Proposition 57 cite when arguing that California's criminal justice system has become too rigid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's serving a 50-year-to-life sentence for stealing $40 out of a cash register and burglarizing his in-laws' vacation cabin. In an interview at San Quentin Prison, Roberts said he was addicted to cocaine at the time and committed the crimes to feed his drug habit. He pleaded guilty, he said, to avoid dragging his now ex-wife through a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roberts was sentenced in 1995, less than a year after California voters approved the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/20142.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Strikes Law\u003c/a>, which required a 25-year-to-life sentence for anyone convicted of a third felony. Roberts had previous robbery convictions and received two 25-to-life sentences for his 1995 convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not eligible for parole until 2044. He'd be 82 years old by then and says the sentence sometimes overwhelms him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118984\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why I wanted to commit suicide. It's 50 years,\" he said. \"The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. I internalize that and it's very, very difficult for me. I've never shot a gun. I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Three Strikes in the aftermath of 12-year-old Polly Klaas' kidnapping and murder in Sonoma County. The law aimed to guarantee long sentences for repeat criminals like her killer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Allen Davis\u003c/a>, who had been in and out of prison all his life. But the law has also snared many lesser offenders, including drug addicts like Roberts. He's not eligible for a revision to Three Strikes approved by voters in 2012 because his felonies are considered serious and violent even though no one was physically harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sentenced me as if I was Richard Allen Davis and that I killed Polly Klaas,\" Roberts said. \"That was the sentence they gave me. But that is not true. I am not Richard Allen Davis. I did not kill Polly Klaas. I didn't molest nobody. The purpose from this point on is punishment for Curtis. Punishment,\" Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 opponents, however, worry that inmates won't be truly rehabilitated because the prisons department won't have the necessary resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need meaningful rehabilitation,\" said Schubert. \"I am all for someone earning their way out prison, I am all for them having hope they can get out of prison ... (but) you have to have true rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he plans to put more money into prison programs. And Amador County's chief probation officer, Mark Bonini, says even with the incentive of early release, some inmates won't choose to participate. Bonini heads the Chief Probation Officers of California, which has endorsed Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because it's there doesn't mean offenders will take advantage,\" Bonini said. \"You could still have somebody, if Prop. 57 passes, do same amount of time,\" he said. \"It's just a matter of trying to incentivize them to take advantage of programs, because ultimately if they do and you have it set up and it's funded, you will have a better product on the back side when they (are released).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonini said his group endorsed the measure because probation chiefs believe it will be easier for offenders to \"seamlessly\" re-enter society if they already are getting help in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Victim's Mixed Feelings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims of violent crimes and those with loved ones in prison have mixed feelings about changing the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal, who didn't want her last name used for this story, is one of those people. She is a domestic violence survivor who said she was dumbstruck when Schubert's office told her they believe her abuser could be released before his full 25-year sentence under Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, James Coker, was convicted of a harrowing series of assaults on Crystal and other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 665px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11118971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Coker is serving a 25 year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57.\" width=\"665\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg 665w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut-400x503.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Coker is serving a 25-year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57. \u003ccite>(CDCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He's hit me with baseball bats, burned my face with lighters and torches, put cigarettes out in my mouth. I just can't even recall some of the stuff he's done. He's broken one of the mason glass jar things over my head where the bottom of it was sticking out of my head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crystal also has a brother in prison who could benefit from Proposition 57. She says she knows many people -- including Coker -- who would have been better served by more effective rehabilitation programs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.' \u003ccite>San Quentin inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin, Roberts dreams of getting out and reconnecting with his daughter, who was 5 when he went to prison. He said he has to balance his hope with the reality of his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked very, very hard on myself to correct some of the past behaviors, my drug use. I haven't used for 22 years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand in my mind, 50 years. I'm 54 years old, so that means I'll be 82, so that means really I'll never get out. At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday, Nov. 8:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57 passed\u003c/a> with strong support from voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Friday, Oct. 7:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/1b.-Marvin-outside-CMF_CloseUp.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marvin Mutch went to prison at 19 for a murder he swears he didn't commit. He spent four decades striving to prove his innocence and win his freedom. But it would take a major shift in California's criminal justice system for Mutch to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/a>' investigates Mutch's conviction and chronicles his and the California Justice System's evolution over a lifetime in prison.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 42 in 1976, he said it would provide \"certain, clear punishment for crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Legislature with little controversy. It created a \u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2883&context=facpubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">determinate sentencing structure in California\u003c/a>, scrapping most open-ended prison terms and instead giving inmates a set release date. It was the first major shift toward a more prescribed approach to punishment in California, one that lawmakers and voters embraced wholeheartedly in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 40 years later, Brown believes that signing the law was a mistake -- and he's asking voters to approve a measure that would move California back toward the system it abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> could allow many inmates to serve shorter prison terms than the ones handed down in court when they were sentenced -- if the state parole board judges them suitable for release. The governor believes the change will make prisons and the public safer by giving inmates an incentive to improve themselves while they are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286577767&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286577767'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if anything, this is the greatest step we could take for public safety in California,\" he said, noting that nearly all inmates are eventually released from prison. \"We want to make sure when they get out, they've gone through a real program of education and rehabilitation and to make that happen, you can't force them, but you can incentivize them by the possibility of earlier parole.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nProsecutors disagree and are campaigning vociferously against Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's dangerous for California.' \u003ccite>Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Our hands will be tied,\" said Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten. \"What a judge imposes will no longer be significant -- and state bureaucrats, who are not subject to elections, who are not accountable to the public, will be making decisions about who does and who does not get released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's dangerous for California,\" added Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 42 and a 'Hog Wild' Legislature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Brown signed the determinate sentencing law, criminal offenders were sentenced to broad, unspecified prison terms. A panel appointed by the governor, then called the Adult Authority, had immense discretion to decide how long an inmate should stayed locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system in place was supposed to allow the release of inmates when they were deemed rehabilitated and ready to re-enter society. But critics -- mostly civil liberties groups -- thought the policy gave too much power to the law enforcement-dominated Adult Authority and resulted in disproportionately long sentences for people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he listened to those critics when he decided to sign SB 42. As he signed the bill in 1976, he told reporters that \"the concept of rehabilitation is seriously changed in our law by allowing the concept of a determinate sentence for a crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MeY-9y3IkVM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MeY-9y3IkVM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He misjudged the law's impacts, Brown said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it would give certainty, it would be more focused, people would know what their punishment is, and that would act as a great deterrent,\" he said. \"Of course, I didn't really think about the fact that when you tell somebody they get out at this date, between then and the time they arrive in prison they have no incentive to take classes, to avoid the gangs, to really scrupulously follow the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has spent much of his third and fourth terms as governor working to fix California's troubled prison system, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Judges-tell-state-to-free-thousands-of-inmates-3251503.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been under federal court oversight for a decade\u003c/a> because conditions inside were ruled to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so crowded and chaotic they violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment\u003c/a>. Brown believes Proposition 57 may be the final major policy change needed to get the state out from under court control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't blame SB 42 alone for the prison overcrowding. Brown also lays responsibility at the feet of lawmakers and voters, who approved dozens of \"tough on crime\" sentencing laws in the years that followed. Chief among those laws are \"criminal enhancements\" -- additional time tacked on to prison sentences because of an offender's criminal history or the nature of their crime. For example, a five-year sentence could grow to 20 years if the offender is a member of a gang or had a gun in their possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First the Legislature goes hog wild -- I'd say criminal legislation on steroids for 30 years,\" the governor said. \"And then at the end of that the Supreme Court says prison conditions are terrible, it's overcrowded, people are committing suicide, they have unconstitutional medical care, you've got to take out thousands and thousands of people from prison,\" he said. \"We want to do that in a rational way, and that's what Proposition 57 attempts to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 wouldn't do away with sentence enhancements, but it would let the state's parole board decide to release an inmate before he or she serves the time tacked on by enhancements -- if an offender is deemed ready to leave prison. That provision would apply only to inmates serving crimes considered nonviolent under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown estimates it would apply to around 1,100 inmates a year; prosecutors say the number is closer to 16,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor notes that inmates are already being released under this process -- in 2014, a federal court ordered the state to start releasing some prisoners after they served their primary sentence, excluding enhancements. The ballot measure would expand that pool of prisoners to anyone convicted of a \"nonviolent\" crime under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one of the major problems with Proposition 57, said Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney. She said the definition of violent crimes in the measure, which includes murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping \u003ca href=\"http://www.stop57.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but not offenses like assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery or hostage-taking\u003c/a>, is too narrow and that potentially dangerous felons could qualify for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118815\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. Below, you can hear Governor Brown's response in a voicemail he left for Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims \" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-400x539.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-960x1295.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I go out to the community and I say, 'How many people in this room think domestic violence is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands. 'How many people think assault with a deadly weapon is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands,\" she said. \"Those are all nonviolent under the penal code.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown calls those claims a \"complete red herring,\" noting that some of the state's most notorious inmates -- including Charles Manson -- were convicted before the determinate-sentencing law and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/california-charles-manson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could be paroled today\u003c/a>. He said the list of violent crimes was created by a ballot measure supported by the District Attorneys Association and that prosecutors have wide discretion when they file charges against defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, Brown argued, the parole board will take into account the facts of each case and the offender's behavior while in prison when weighing whether to release them -- which is why Manson remains behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole commissioners making these judgments now will have a better sense of what serves public safety than a court did years or decades ago, he argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just saying that what they decide on the day of sentencing, that is not all perfect. It's not omniscient, and over time -- five, eight, 10, 15, 20 years -- why not have a group of wise people saying, 'You know what? I think this inmate's ready for release'?\" he said. \"I want the parole board to look into the eyes of that parolee, listen where it's appropriate to the victims or the district attorney, and make an informed judgment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schubert is worried the parole board won't have a chance to look in the eyes of an inmate or hear from victims and prosecutors directly. She said many of the inmates approved for early release in recent years because of the federal court order never saw a parole commissioner -- their files were reviewed by deputy commissioners, who made a decision without ever talking to the inmate, prosecutors or victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the governor's initiative that says it's a parole board\" reviewing the cases, Schubert said. \"What we already know from the governor's early releases is that it's not a hearing, it's a letter. We get to write a letter. That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he understands that concern and will work to address it if Proposition 57 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's something to be decided and maybe we'll take the more serious inmates and maybe put them through live parole,\" he said. \"I understand if it's just administrative, on paper, that's different than, as I said, looking into their eyes. ... I'll try to get the best, safest, most humanly effective process as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cleansing the Augean Stables'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second provision of Proposition 57 could have even wider-ranging implications. It would allow the state prisons department to revamp the system for awarding \"good time credits\" to inmates who participate in programs such as drug rehabilitation or schooling. Currently, there's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/Credits_Memo.pdf\">patchwork of laws and regulations\u003c/a> governing the credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I challenge you to find in California someone that can explain perfectly the credit system. I don't think they exist,\" Brown said. \"You can get credit 15 percent of the time a third of the time, 20 percent of the time, half the time, day for day -- but it keeps changing. You can get this much credit for this crime, but then in 1990 it was this, in 1995 it was that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Proposition 57 would \"cleanse the \u003ca href=\"http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augean stables\u003c/a>\" and allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a new system through a public regulatory process that would include prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement and any other member of the public who wants to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. ... I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.' \u003ccite>San Quentin Prison inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Curtis Roberts is one of the inmates barred from earning credits -- even though he's participated in programs during his entire 22 years in state prison. He's the type of prisoner supporters of Proposition 57 cite when arguing that California's criminal justice system has become too rigid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's serving a 50-year-to-life sentence for stealing $40 out of a cash register and burglarizing his in-laws' vacation cabin. In an interview at San Quentin Prison, Roberts said he was addicted to cocaine at the time and committed the crimes to feed his drug habit. He pleaded guilty, he said, to avoid dragging his now ex-wife through a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roberts was sentenced in 1995, less than a year after California voters approved the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/20142.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Strikes Law\u003c/a>, which required a 25-year-to-life sentence for anyone convicted of a third felony. Roberts had previous robbery convictions and received two 25-to-life sentences for his 1995 convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not eligible for parole until 2044. He'd be 82 years old by then and says the sentence sometimes overwhelms him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118984\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why I wanted to commit suicide. It's 50 years,\" he said. \"The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. I internalize that and it's very, very difficult for me. I've never shot a gun. I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Three Strikes in the aftermath of 12-year-old Polly Klaas' kidnapping and murder in Sonoma County. The law aimed to guarantee long sentences for repeat criminals like her killer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Allen Davis\u003c/a>, who had been in and out of prison all his life. But the law has also snared many lesser offenders, including drug addicts like Roberts. He's not eligible for a revision to Three Strikes approved by voters in 2012 because his felonies are considered serious and violent even though no one was physically harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sentenced me as if I was Richard Allen Davis and that I killed Polly Klaas,\" Roberts said. \"That was the sentence they gave me. But that is not true. I am not Richard Allen Davis. I did not kill Polly Klaas. I didn't molest nobody. The purpose from this point on is punishment for Curtis. Punishment,\" Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 opponents, however, worry that inmates won't be truly rehabilitated because the prisons department won't have the necessary resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need meaningful rehabilitation,\" said Schubert. \"I am all for someone earning their way out prison, I am all for them having hope they can get out of prison ... (but) you have to have true rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he plans to put more money into prison programs. And Amador County's chief probation officer, Mark Bonini, says even with the incentive of early release, some inmates won't choose to participate. Bonini heads the Chief Probation Officers of California, which has endorsed Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because it's there doesn't mean offenders will take advantage,\" Bonini said. \"You could still have somebody, if Prop. 57 passes, do same amount of time,\" he said. \"It's just a matter of trying to incentivize them to take advantage of programs, because ultimately if they do and you have it set up and it's funded, you will have a better product on the back side when they (are released).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonini said his group endorsed the measure because probation chiefs believe it will be easier for offenders to \"seamlessly\" re-enter society if they already are getting help in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Victim's Mixed Feelings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims of violent crimes and those with loved ones in prison have mixed feelings about changing the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal, who didn't want her last name used for this story, is one of those people. She is a domestic violence survivor who said she was dumbstruck when Schubert's office told her they believe her abuser could be released before his full 25-year sentence under Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, James Coker, was convicted of a harrowing series of assaults on Crystal and other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 665px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11118971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Coker is serving a 25 year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57.\" width=\"665\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg 665w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut-400x503.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Coker is serving a 25-year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57. \u003ccite>(CDCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He's hit me with baseball bats, burned my face with lighters and torches, put cigarettes out in my mouth. I just can't even recall some of the stuff he's done. He's broken one of the mason glass jar things over my head where the bottom of it was sticking out of my head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crystal also has a brother in prison who could benefit from Proposition 57. She says she knows many people -- including Coker -- who would have been better served by more effective rehabilitation programs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.' \u003ccite>San Quentin inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin, Roberts dreams of getting out and reconnecting with his daughter, who was 5 when he went to prison. He said he has to balance his hope with the reality of his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked very, very hard on myself to correct some of the past behaviors, my drug use. I haven't used for 22 years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand in my mind, 50 years. I'm 54 years old, so that means I'll be 82, so that means really I'll never get out. At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Is Rent Control Fair? The Question at the Heart of the Debate",
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"content": "\u003cp>The fight over who is responsible for California’s fast-rising rents and its housing crisis is playing out on ballots across the Bay Area. There are six cities in the region asking voters to weigh in on ballot measures that would limit certain evictions and make it harder for property owners to raise rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in Alameda, Richmond, Oakland, Burlingame, San Mateo and Mountain View will be casting ballots this November in one of California's most politically relevant moments for rent regulation in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286184505\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For renters, the argument for why cities need rent control or rent stabilization laws is simple. Stories about evictions and displacement have become common in the Bay Area, and many families are being forced, or choosing, to leave cities that are \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly gentrifying\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work to get these measures on the ballot has been hard. Renters' advocates are spending well below the amount spent by the real estate industry for campaigning. Along the Peninsula, renters' groups have raised tens of thousands of dollars, compared with the hundreds of thousands raised by their competitors, according to campaign finance statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, renters have lower voter turnout compared with homeowners, so rent-control advocates say they must work harder if they hope to gain the simple majority to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109675\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 681px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11109675 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent.jpg\" alt=\"Rent\" width=\"681\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent.jpg 681w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent-400x246.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of National Low Income Housing Coalition.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marshalling Renters in Burlingame\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers gathered in the back of a dimly lit union hall near downtown Burlingame last month to look over maps of the city. They passed out stacks of fliers supporting Measure R, which would limit rent increases to inflation (not less than 1 percent and not more than 4 percent) on multifamily rental units built before 1995. Single-family homes and condos are exempt. The measure would also limit the ability of landlords to evict tenants in any residential building unless there was good reason -- like failure to pay rent or damaging the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings in California constructed after 1995 are exempt from rent controls, according to state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this particular day in Burlingame, the job for the renters' group was to find undecided voters, then try to convince those voters to join their side over the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting in the buildings is a little tough. But we have ways of getting in the buildings so we can talk to them,\" said Cindy Cornell, one of the campaign leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3s and 4s who they might convince to join their side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3's and 4's who they might convince to join their side. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In each of the six cities with ballot measures, renters have clashed with elected city leaders about how far they should go to stop rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/09/14/richmond-rent-increase-and-eviction-moratorium-blocked-by-mayor-tom-butt-and-two-councilmembers\">Richmond\u003c/a> failed to pass a moratorium on rent increases in September; the city councils in Alameda and Mountain View approved their own rent regulation measures that will go before voters in November. Renters groups are generally critical of any city-approved ballot measure, claiming they offer weaker renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, rents for two-bedroom units shot up about 50 percent over the last four years. But the city of Burlingame hasn’t backed Measure R. In fact, it wrote the argument against it, which upset renters like Cornell. The City Council called the measure bad public policy and, despite trying to study the issue, some council members said they didn't know enough about what the impact of Measure R would be on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though opposed, the Burlingame City Council decided to run the ballot measure in the November election rather than waiting a month and holding a special election when there would be lower voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the Heart of the Issue Is This Question About Fairness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six cities with renter measures have a complicated question before them, says Chris Palmer, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business: Who do they want to enable to stay in the community, and who should pay for that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer echoes what many economists agree on -- that rent control or rent stabilization is a temporary fix for people living in communities now, and that cities need to figure out how to build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a Band-Aid to a gushing wound,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer of who \u003cem>will\u003c/em> pay for it might come down to how many renters show up to vote, he said. Renters make up a majority of residents in most of the cities holding rent-control ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters make up about 52 percent of the population in Alameda, 52 percent in Burlingame, 59 percent in Mountain View, 47 percent in San Mateo and 55 percent in Richmond. In Oakland, 60 percent of residents are renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that the fraction of renters who are voting in a given city is going to be the biggest determinant,\" Palmer said. \"Then it’s going to be a question of how effective do they think this policy is going to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Property Owners Could Get Priced Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, vocal and persistent renter advocates pressured the city to pass a package of rent laws in September, including one that requires property owners to petition for rent increases higher than the annual consumer price index increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Ballot Measure JJ would also put the onus on landlords who want to raise rents above the index to petition a rent board for approval. The measure would also expand the city's just-cause eviction law to buildings constructed through 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new and proposed laws have caused some smaller landlords to feel that they, too, might get priced out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what they say don’t do -- don’t let your heart get in it,\" Karen Francisco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 69-year-old landlord bought her fourplex right near Lake Merritt in 1979. It’s an older building with Mediterranean character from the 1930s. All four families who live in the building, including herself, share one furnace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each person has a thermostat, but if one person turns their thermostat on, they turn the heat on for everybody,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco wants to pay to install separate heating units. She also wants new windows with thicker panes, but she can’t afford it. She estimates she's spending about $1,000 more each month than she makes in income, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109840\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109840\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you walk into her place there is hardly any furniture in the front room. She’s been downsizing and preparing to leave the building she owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was ready to move out because I couldn’t afford it. But I’ve changed my mind because I’m not ready to go,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also can’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco wants the city to reconsider what impact rent control has on small landlords in Oakland. She’s convinced the city could and should do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big property owners seem to be able to take care of themselves. And some of them, it’s just sad to say, it’s just greed. Whereas those who are really here to make a contribution to this city can absolutely do so without hurting the next fellow,\" Francisco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Palmer is right, and renter turnout has a big impact, Francisco could be in trouble. She has already prepared herself to leave.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The fight over who is responsible for California’s fast-rising rents and its housing crisis is playing out on ballots across the Bay Area. There are six cities in the region asking voters to weigh in on ballot measures that would limit certain evictions and make it harder for property owners to raise rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in Alameda, Richmond, Oakland, Burlingame, San Mateo and Mountain View will be casting ballots this November in one of California's most politically relevant moments for rent regulation in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286184505&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286184505'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For renters, the argument for why cities need rent control or rent stabilization laws is simple. Stories about evictions and displacement have become common in the Bay Area, and many families are being forced, or choosing, to leave cities that are \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly gentrifying\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work to get these measures on the ballot has been hard. Renters' advocates are spending well below the amount spent by the real estate industry for campaigning. Along the Peninsula, renters' groups have raised tens of thousands of dollars, compared with the hundreds of thousands raised by their competitors, according to campaign finance statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, renters have lower voter turnout compared with homeowners, so rent-control advocates say they must work harder if they hope to gain the simple majority to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109675\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 681px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11109675 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent.jpg\" alt=\"Rent\" width=\"681\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent.jpg 681w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent-400x246.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of National Low Income Housing Coalition.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marshalling Renters in Burlingame\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers gathered in the back of a dimly lit union hall near downtown Burlingame last month to look over maps of the city. They passed out stacks of fliers supporting Measure R, which would limit rent increases to inflation (not less than 1 percent and not more than 4 percent) on multifamily rental units built before 1995. Single-family homes and condos are exempt. The measure would also limit the ability of landlords to evict tenants in any residential building unless there was good reason -- like failure to pay rent or damaging the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings in California constructed after 1995 are exempt from rent controls, according to state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this particular day in Burlingame, the job for the renters' group was to find undecided voters, then try to convince those voters to join their side over the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting in the buildings is a little tough. But we have ways of getting in the buildings so we can talk to them,\" said Cindy Cornell, one of the campaign leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3s and 4s who they might convince to join their side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3's and 4's who they might convince to join their side. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In each of the six cities with ballot measures, renters have clashed with elected city leaders about how far they should go to stop rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/09/14/richmond-rent-increase-and-eviction-moratorium-blocked-by-mayor-tom-butt-and-two-councilmembers\">Richmond\u003c/a> failed to pass a moratorium on rent increases in September; the city councils in Alameda and Mountain View approved their own rent regulation measures that will go before voters in November. Renters groups are generally critical of any city-approved ballot measure, claiming they offer weaker renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, rents for two-bedroom units shot up about 50 percent over the last four years. But the city of Burlingame hasn’t backed Measure R. In fact, it wrote the argument against it, which upset renters like Cornell. The City Council called the measure bad public policy and, despite trying to study the issue, some council members said they didn't know enough about what the impact of Measure R would be on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though opposed, the Burlingame City Council decided to run the ballot measure in the November election rather than waiting a month and holding a special election when there would be lower voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the Heart of the Issue Is This Question About Fairness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six cities with renter measures have a complicated question before them, says Chris Palmer, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business: Who do they want to enable to stay in the community, and who should pay for that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer echoes what many economists agree on -- that rent control or rent stabilization is a temporary fix for people living in communities now, and that cities need to figure out how to build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a Band-Aid to a gushing wound,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer of who \u003cem>will\u003c/em> pay for it might come down to how many renters show up to vote, he said. Renters make up a majority of residents in most of the cities holding rent-control ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters make up about 52 percent of the population in Alameda, 52 percent in Burlingame, 59 percent in Mountain View, 47 percent in San Mateo and 55 percent in Richmond. In Oakland, 60 percent of residents are renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that the fraction of renters who are voting in a given city is going to be the biggest determinant,\" Palmer said. \"Then it’s going to be a question of how effective do they think this policy is going to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Property Owners Could Get Priced Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, vocal and persistent renter advocates pressured the city to pass a package of rent laws in September, including one that requires property owners to petition for rent increases higher than the annual consumer price index increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Ballot Measure JJ would also put the onus on landlords who want to raise rents above the index to petition a rent board for approval. The measure would also expand the city's just-cause eviction law to buildings constructed through 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new and proposed laws have caused some smaller landlords to feel that they, too, might get priced out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what they say don’t do -- don’t let your heart get in it,\" Karen Francisco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 69-year-old landlord bought her fourplex right near Lake Merritt in 1979. It’s an older building with Mediterranean character from the 1930s. All four families who live in the building, including herself, share one furnace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each person has a thermostat, but if one person turns their thermostat on, they turn the heat on for everybody,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco wants to pay to install separate heating units. She also wants new windows with thicker panes, but she can’t afford it. She estimates she's spending about $1,000 more each month than she makes in income, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109840\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109840\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you walk into her place there is hardly any furniture in the front room. She’s been downsizing and preparing to leave the building she owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was ready to move out because I couldn’t afford it. But I’ve changed my mind because I’m not ready to go,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also can’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco wants the city to reconsider what impact rent control has on small landlords in Oakland. She’s convinced the city could and should do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big property owners seem to be able to take care of themselves. And some of them, it’s just sad to say, it’s just greed. Whereas those who are really here to make a contribution to this city can absolutely do so without hurting the next fellow,\" Francisco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Andrew Naylor was working at a digital advertising firm in Silicon Valley when the “a-ha” moment struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 2008, and money -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28985504/ns/us_news-life/t/more-million-spent-prop/#.V_Lh0JMrJ0I\">more than $83 million\u003c/a> -- was gushing into the advertising world as Californians prepared to vote on Proposition 8, the measure to limit marriage to heterosexual couples which was later ruled unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw what was happening with politics in California and everything was just huge. The amount of money both sides were spending, for and against, on online advertising and television ads was just incredible,” said Naylor, who lives in Menlo Park. And it opened his eyes to a potential ballot prop campaign bonanza: domain names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those names -- essentially a website’s address -- have long been a hot commodity, as speculators have bought up dot-com labels with commercial appeal and sold the hottest among them for millions. Naylor, a systems administrator with a business degree, had bought up thousands of web addresses, many wine-related, and sold one for a five-figure sum. After watching the Proposition 8 blitz, he started buying addresses with combinations of yes and no on propositions 1 to 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s how Naylor became a virtual landlord of more than 1,000 campaign domain names -- and a dominant player in California’s marketplace for political web addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he cares more about tech than politics. But California’s system of direct democracy offers plenty of opportunity to foster an election-year business at the intersection of the two. With 17 measures on the statewide ballot this November, and campaigns seeking websites for and against each one, there is demand for at least 34 domain names this year. Naylor is doing business with 12 campaigns, including those to legalize \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\">marijuana\u003c/a>, extend \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2018/info/proposition-55\">income taxes\u003c/a>, raise \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2019/info/proposition-56\">cigarette taxes\u003c/a> and repeal the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/proposition/proposition-62-and-66-death-penalty/\">death penalty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was buying them up before (Naylor) got into it. And then all of a sudden I was like, ‘Who is this bidding against me?’” said Dan Schluer, who owns a competing \u003ca href=\"http://ballotmeasuredomains.com/default.aspx\">business\u003c/a> in campaign domains based in San Bernardino County. “(Now) he has a much more extensive portfolio than I do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"31IBwrX9yFAYx9pthXyFzDPQNcyVDyjE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naylor doesn’t buy domains that involve the names of specific politicians -- only those that could be used for ballot measure campaigns. That’s because federal law is stricter when it comes to commercial use of domain names based on real people. Domain names that use proposition numbers don’t face the same limits, said Enrico Schaefer, an expert in internet law with the Traverse Legal firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no cyber-squatting issue there because typically there is no trademark in those words,” Schaefer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naylor sees himself almost like a collector who stores a library of web addresses available for the long haul. His model is to lease, rather than sell, his ballot measure domain names -- that way he retains ownership the next time the numbers are used. He says he charges an average of about $300 a month, with most campaigns renting them for five months, from when the state assigns proposition numbers in early July through the end of November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The secretary of state releases the numbers and then my phone starts ringing,” Naylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s the wild west. The first one in line gets the best names and people have made a business out of that.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>His \u003ca href=\"http://www.votingdomainnames.com/\">website\u003c/a> gives a sense of the sweep of his holdings. For Proposition 51, for example, Naylor owns YesOn51.com, YesOn51.org, YesOnProp51.com, YesOnProp51.org. He also owns the corresponding “No” addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns backed by millions of dollars typically don’t blink over the cost of renting domain names, viewing it as a part of the cost of doing business, Naylor said. Many ask if they can also buy up the addresses their opponents might want. Naylor says he won’t do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this sense of fairness -- I’d rather they be available to both sides than the one who’s the highest bidder,” Naylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, for campaigns with less money, coming up with a website can become a puzzle. The campaign for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/proposition/proposition-58-bilingual-education/\">Proposition 58\u003c/a>, which seeks to remove limits on bilingual education, opted for supportprop58.com after discovering that Naylor already owned YesOnProp58.com. By California standards, it’s a low-budget campaign, having raised about $1.1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have money to spend on extra things like buying a domain name,” said campaign spokeswoman Robin Swanson. “That might mean we have to do more social media promoting supportprop58.com so people go to the right web site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another relatively low-budget campaign, supporting \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2030/info/proposition-67\">Proposition 67\u003c/a> to ban plastic bags, also opted to work around the domain name hustle. It chose cayeson67.com after discovering that YesOnProp67.com, YesOnProp67.org, YesOn67.org and YesOn67.com were taken—three of them by Naylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought our name was stupid. So I asked about it and I was told that the ones we wanted (cost too much money),” said Steve Maviglio, a consultant working on the campaign. “It’s the wild west. The first one in line gets the best names and people have made a business out of that. So God bless their forward thinking.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tonight’s U.S. Senate debate in Los Angeles will be the last chance to see California Attorney General \u003ca href=\"http://www.kamalaharris.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> and Orange County congresswoman \u003ca href=\"http://www.loretta.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Loretta Sanchez\u003c/a> face off against each other before the election. It might help voters decide which of these two Democrats is best suited to replace retiring Sen. 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And often, the best senators are a little of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ACj09RxK6JeM73wSrYAcQ7qA7fw7daSd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Senate was traditionally the saucer that was supposed to cool the cup,\" says Marc Sandalow, associate academic director of the University of California Washington Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was supposed to be the reasoned party elders who would come together and cool the feelings of the masses,\" meaning the House of Representatives, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandalow adds that while the Senate was \u003cem>supposed\u003c/em> to be the more staid institution, recently it's become more like the House, with firebrand members like Texas Sen. 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Dianne Feinstein) parlayed anger over the lack of women on the Senate Judiciary Committee that year into the historic 1992 \"Year of the Woman\" election.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It takes a certain ability to hold tough where you know you have to in order to look at yourself in the mirror, but also to find those areas where you can come together.'\u003ccite>Barbara Boxer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. Senate, Boxer has remained a liberal lion on behalf of issues like combating climate change. But she's also won over staunch conservatives, like Oklahoma Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. James Inhofe\u003c/a>, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee and a leading climate change denier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a genuine, close friendship with Barbara,\" Inhofe says. \"She and I joke around a lot, probably more on the floor with each other, and that just drives everybody nuts. Each one knows where the other one is and we can love each other anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite polar opposite views on environmental issues, Boxer and Inhofe have managed to work together to pass bipartisan transportation bills and an overhaul of chemical safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer describes her \"when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em\" strategy of legislating as an art form. Bottom line: You need to know when to set aside ideological purity to get something done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a certain ability to hold tough where you know you have to in order to look at yourself in the mirror, but also to find those areas where you can come together,” Boxer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Boxer and Feinstein, UC's Sandalow says Feinstein is more in the traditional style of a senator -- less vitriol and more behind-the-scenes consensus building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11116433\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Retiring U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-800x493.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-400x246.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-1180x727.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-960x592.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retiring U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boxer, on the other hand, \"is more of a flamethrower\" Sandalow says, recalling her attacks on fellow Sen. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/08/us/packwood-case-overview-packwood-says-he-quitting-ethics-panel-gives-evidence.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Packwood \u003c/a>(R-Oregon) after he was accused of sexual harassment. 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Each one knows where the other one is and we can love each other anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite polar opposite views on environmental issues, Boxer and Inhofe have managed to work together to pass bipartisan transportation bills and an overhaul of chemical safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer describes her \"when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em\" strategy of legislating as an art form. Bottom line: You need to know when to set aside ideological purity to get something done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a certain ability to hold tough where you know you have to in order to look at yourself in the mirror, but also to find those areas where you can come together,” Boxer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Boxer and Feinstein, UC's Sandalow says Feinstein is more in the traditional style of a senator -- less vitriol and more behind-the-scenes consensus building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11116433\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Retiring U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-800x493.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-400x246.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-1180x727.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Boxer-960x592.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retiring U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boxer, on the other hand, \"is more of a flamethrower\" Sandalow says, recalling her attacks on fellow Sen. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/08/us/packwood-case-overview-packwood-says-he-quitting-ethics-panel-gives-evidence.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Packwood \u003c/a>(R-Oregon) after he was accused of sexual harassment. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We can bank online and we can shop online so why can’t we vote online?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer that question, we first need to agree on what it means, said \u003ca href=\"https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/david-dill\">David Dill\u003c/a>, a computer science professor at Stanford and the founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.verifiedvoting.org/about-vvf/\">Verified Voting Foundation\u003c/a>. In other words, what do people mean when they ask: “Why can’t we vote online?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason people want internet voting is because they want the convenience to vote at home or vote on their smartphone,” Dill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286035246\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to agree. I want to vote online like I do everything else online. I want to vote anywhere, anytime and on any device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, Dill said the answer is simple: We can’t vote online because our personal devices are too easy to hack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we had online elections, we would never be able to trust the results of those elections,” Dill said. “These systems are just notoriously insecure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you follow the news, you know that our \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/17/your-smartphone-could-be-hacked-without-your-knowledge.html\">smartphones \u003c/a>and personal computers are constantly getting hacked. While antivirus companies try, no software can stop all viruses. 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The white hat hackers changed votes and wrote in the names of evil robots and characters from sci-fi movies. The kicker? When people were finished voting, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF--ldYIBnM\">Michigan fight song\u003c/a> came on. As it turns out, D.C. officials hadn’t noticed until a voter called to tell them about the song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dill is an unlikely soldier in the war against internet voting. He became interested in electronic voting in 2000 during the Florida recount of the Bush versus Gore election. With the failures of punch-card voting exposed, many counties were turning to electronic touch-screen voting machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dill says he thought it was a good idea but kept hearing conspiracy theories that you can’t audit electronic votes. Dill labeled the notion a “conspiracy” because he was sure it was wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"JyY16juSkUGL3d8mjVPhcsMaYinNCpAW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a computer scientist, I thought there must be a way to solve this problem,” Dill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turned out, there wasn’t a conspiracy. It was true. And here Dill encountered one of the biggest technical hurdles that need to be cleared before we can vote online in the United States. One of the central tenets of our voting system is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-ballot\">secret ballot\u003c/a>. Right now, the technology doesn’t exist to track the integrity of anonymous ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voting is a uniquely hard problem,” Dill said. “First of all, what do we want from elections? We really want to trust the result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trust means if there’s a dispute, there’s evidence to settle it. And that’s where Dill has come full circle. 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The case was unsolved for decades, until a DNA hit led cold case investigators to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital_punishment/docs/condemnedinmatelistsecure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hirschfield\u003c/a>, who was serving time in a Washington State prison for child molestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286001556\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Hirschfield was sentenced to death by a Sacramento jury, 33 years after what became known as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlxmMeaW36w\" target=\"_blank\">the Sweetheart Murders\u003c/a>.\" Hirschfield is currently one of nearly 750 people on California's death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I’m not too concerned about it because I really don’t think that I’m going to be killed,'\u003ccite>Richard Hirschfield\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Richard Riggins, the execution can't come soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re going to give him a general anesthesia, like people do every day for major operative procedures,\" Riggins tells me. \"He just isn’t going to wake up. He is going to die in his sleep. So cruel and unusual punishment? Not really.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my visit to death row late last year, Richard Hirschfield, the man who killed John Riggins and his girlfriend, told me he wasn't too concerned about getting an execution date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not too concerned about it because I really don’t think that I’m going to be killed,\" Hirschfield said through the bars on his prison cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirschfield has good reason to think that. Since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978, nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/history_of_capital_punishment.html\" target=\"_blank\">900 death sentences \u003c/a>have been handed down by juries. And yet the state has executed just 13 condemned inmates. The last was Clarence Ray Allen in January 2006. 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There hasn't been an execution since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11110853\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-800x506.png\" alt=\"How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-800x506.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-400x253.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-1180x747.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-960x608.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nEven before Fogel stopped executions, legal appeals for death row inmates dragged on for 20 years or more. With that in mind, backers of \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/quick-reference-guide/66.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 66 \u003c/a>are seeking to reduce the time between a death sentence being handed down and carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 66 seeks to \"mend, not end\" the death penalty so that decades-long delays are eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would do that by changing the procedures governing legal appeals, which are automatic in California. It would also require more attorneys to accept death penalty appeals cases and train them in how to handle those cases. And it would shorten the amount of time allowed for state appeals and require death row inmates to work while in prison and pay restitution to their victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unconscionable that it should take 25 to 30 years, and that individuals are dying on death row of natural causes, when a jury has said that this (death) is an appropriate sentence for very rare circumstances,\" says Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. She thinks Proposition 66 will help deliver more timely justice to crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course not everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That initiative is a false promise of expediting death sentences,\" says Santa Clara University Law School professor Ellen Kreitzberg. She supports \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/quick-reference-guide/62.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 62\u003c/a>, a competing measure to end the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The danger with Proposition 66,\" she says, \"is it does limit and narrow the ability to present newly discovered evidence, which is how most of these innocence claims are presented in court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other critics of Proposition 66 think speeding up the appeals process could lead to a catastrophic mistake in California -- like executing an innocent person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weak link in Proposition 66 might be funding it. The measure contains no language requiring the state Legislature to spend the money on training additional attorneys to handle death penalty appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdaa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, admits that getting Proposition 66 funded could be problematic, especially with a governor and state Legislature opposed to capital punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We recognize it’s going to have to rely on the Legislature implementing the will of the people\" Wagstaffe says. \"And if they do not, well, that is on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Kate and Richard Riggins' son, John, was murdered along with his girlfriend, Sabrina Gonsalves, in 1980. At the time, John was a freshman attending the University of California at Davis. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were kidnapped and left in a ditch to die with their throats slit,\" says Kate Riggins. The case was unsolved for decades, until a DNA hit led cold case investigators to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital_punishment/docs/condemnedinmatelistsecure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hirschfield\u003c/a>, who was serving time in a Washington State prison for child molestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286001556&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286001556'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Hirschfield was sentenced to death by a Sacramento jury, 33 years after what became known as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlxmMeaW36w\" target=\"_blank\">the Sweetheart Murders\u003c/a>.\" Hirschfield is currently one of nearly 750 people on California's death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I’m not too concerned about it because I really don’t think that I’m going to be killed,'\u003ccite>Richard Hirschfield\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Richard Riggins, the execution can't come soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re going to give him a general anesthesia, like people do every day for major operative procedures,\" Riggins tells me. \"He just isn’t going to wake up. He is going to die in his sleep. So cruel and unusual punishment? Not really.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my visit to death row late last year, Richard Hirschfield, the man who killed John Riggins and his girlfriend, told me he wasn't too concerned about getting an execution date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not too concerned about it because I really don’t think that I’m going to be killed,\" Hirschfield said through the bars on his prison cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirschfield has good reason to think that. Since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978, nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/history_of_capital_punishment.html\" target=\"_blank\">900 death sentences \u003c/a>have been handed down by juries. And yet the state has executed just 13 condemned inmates. The last was Clarence Ray Allen in January 2006. Later that year, federal \u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/jf\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Jeremy Fogel \u003c/a>suspended executions until the state revises the protocol it uses to put inmates to death. There hasn't been an execution since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11110853\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-800x506.png\" alt=\"How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-800x506.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-400x253.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-1180x747.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-960x608.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nEven before Fogel stopped executions, legal appeals for death row inmates dragged on for 20 years or more. With that in mind, backers of \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/quick-reference-guide/66.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 66 \u003c/a>are seeking to reduce the time between a death sentence being handed down and carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 66 seeks to \"mend, not end\" the death penalty so that decades-long delays are eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would do that by changing the procedures governing legal appeals, which are automatic in California. It would also require more attorneys to accept death penalty appeals cases and train them in how to handle those cases. And it would shorten the amount of time allowed for state appeals and require death row inmates to work while in prison and pay restitution to their victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unconscionable that it should take 25 to 30 years, and that individuals are dying on death row of natural causes, when a jury has said that this (death) is an appropriate sentence for very rare circumstances,\" says Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. She thinks Proposition 66 will help deliver more timely justice to crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course not everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That initiative is a false promise of expediting death sentences,\" says Santa Clara University Law School professor Ellen Kreitzberg. She supports \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/quick-reference-guide/62.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 62\u003c/a>, a competing measure to end the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The danger with Proposition 66,\" she says, \"is it does limit and narrow the ability to present newly discovered evidence, which is how most of these innocence claims are presented in court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other critics of Proposition 66 think speeding up the appeals process could lead to a catastrophic mistake in California -- like executing an innocent person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weak link in Proposition 66 might be funding it. The measure contains no language requiring the state Legislature to spend the money on training additional attorneys to handle death penalty appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdaa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, admits that getting Proposition 66 funded could be problematic, especially with a governor and state Legislature opposed to capital punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We recognize it’s going to have to rely on the Legislature implementing the will of the people\" Wagstaffe says. \"And if they do not, well, that is on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 2005, Dionne Wilson was desperate for revenge. Her husband, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Newark-man-should-die-for-killing-San-Leandro-2587867.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Niemi\u003c/a>, a San Leandro cop, was shot seven times and killed in an ambush while answering a public disturbance call. The killer was on probation and desperate to avoid going back to prison for having guns and drugs in his possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.alcoda.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Alameda County district attorney\u003c/a> asked the jury to return a death sentence for the killer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irving Ramirez\u003c/a>. And Wilson wanted it, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I begged for it,” Wilson remembers. “I told them they had to. They have to give me this justice for my children and for my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson got her wish. Ramirez was sentenced to death. But it didn’t have the effect she hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That verdict was supposed to be the thing that made me feel better,” Wilson says. “And I felt nothing. All I felt was betrayed, disappointed, let down. I was still full of hatred and anger, and it had nowhere to go. It made it worse. It actually made it worse for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285845324″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson no longer supports capital punishment. In fact, she’s become an advocate for criminal justice reform and supports \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_62,_Repeal_of_the_Death_Penalty_(2016)\">Proposition 62 \u003c/a>to end the death penalty and make life in prison without the possibility of parole the toughest penalty for first-degree murder in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109498\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11109498 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Dionne01-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dionne Wilson's husband Dan Niemi was shot and killed while on duty as a San Leandro police officer. His killer received the death penalty, but she's now opposed to capital punishment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Dionne01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Dionne01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Dionne01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Dionne01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Dionne01-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dionne Wilson’s husband, Dan Niemi, was shot and killed while on duty as a San Leandro police officer. His killer received the death penalty, but she’s now opposed to capital punishment. \u003ccite>(KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole system is so broken that there really is no repairing it,” Wilson says. “I think what makes the most sense is just to end it. Let’s be smart on crime instead of this tough on crime that has utterly failed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is not your typical crime victim advocate. Most not only want to \u003cem>keep\u003c/em> the death penalty, they want to speed up executions with \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_66,_Death_Penalty_Procedures_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 66\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of California’s 58 district attorneys, including Anne Marie Schubert from Sacramento, oppose Proposition 62. Schubert says the death penalty should be reserved for what many call “the worst of the worst,” whose heinous crimes affected hundreds of victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about well over 200 children, 44 or 45 police officers killed in the line of duty,” says Schubert. “We’re talking about women who have been kidnapped, raped and tortured. We’re talking about serial killers, mass killers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert says it would be an injustice to their victims if those death sentences are overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s one thing supporters and opponents of capital punishment agree on, it’s that California’s death penalty as it is today doesn’t work. Since California reinstated capital punishment in 1978, about 875 death sentences have been handed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/docs/CONDEMNEDINMATESWHOHAVEDIEDSINCE1978.pdf?pdf=Inmates-Died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">119 deaths \u003c/a>among condemned inmates in California, only 13 were the result of a state execution. The vast majority died of natural causes or suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[deathRow]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last execution occurred in 2006. That same year federal\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/watch/archive/288222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Judge Jeremy Fogel \u003c/a>put a hold on further executions over concerns about the state’s three-drug protocol for putting inmates to death. More than a decade later, California has still not given final approval to a new procedure. Even before that latest legal delay, the average time between conviction and an execution was about 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of death sentences handed down each year in California has been declining since peaking at 38 in 1999. Last year 14 death sentences were returned, and so far this year there have been only six, including one last month in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geography matters a lot, too. Los Angeles, California’s largest county, also has given out the most death sentences — 267 since 1978. 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