ADDA President Michele Hanisee is quoted in coverage at SOMD.com:
“Michele Hanisee, President of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys, warned of Soros’ ongoing attempts “to buy the criminal justice system” in a pair of editorials recently posted on the organization’s website:
Now, California is in the crosshairs of Soros funded campaigns that target District Attorney races in San Diego, Alameda, Yolo and Sacramento counties.”
ADDA President Michele Hanisee is quoted in this Fox and Hounds Daily article, “Transforming Justice vs. Toughening Punishment Battle for Supremacy in 2018 Elections”:
“Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys in Los Angeles wrote a scathing critique of the Soros backed candidate in San Diego County, Genevieve Jones-Wright: “His anointed candidate, to whom he has thrown a whopping $1.5 million, has announced she will never seek the death penalty, refuse to charge those under 25 with crimes that could lead to a life without parole sentence, not charge drug dealers who sell to cops, release accused criminals without bail, and wants to “decriminalize” low level offenses by refusing to prosecute them. For good measure, she also is in support of closing prisons altogether.”
ADDA President Michele Hanisee is quoted in this article on AB109:
“The criminal himself said, ‘I did it because of AB 109,’ ” said Michele Hanisee, president of the union that represents L.A. County prosecutors.
Witnessla.com recently covered the ADDA’s response to the UC Irvine study on Prop 47. In their coverage, they say:
“On Friday morning, the Association of Deputy District Attorneys disagreed firmly with the study’s findings, in the form of a blog post by ADDA’s president Michele Hanissee. The ADDA made some important points.
“First the prosecutors pointed out that although Prop.47 changed the designation for certain low level drug crimes, the study did not consider drug offenses at all.
“Instead, it examined ‘Part 1′ crimes which include homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, auto theft and larceny.” However, since, Prop 47 only affected the sentencing on drug offenses and larceny offenses (and, to some small degree, auto thefts if the car is valued at less than $950),” the ADDA argued, it was “irrelevant” to consider its impact on “homicide, rape, aggravated assault and the other Part 1 crimes that Prop 47 never addressed.”
“We’d like to interject here that Prop. 47 has been blamed by many critics for any and all upticks in crime, including Part 1 crime, but we fully get the prosecutors’ point.
“So, what were the results of the study regarding larceny crimes in 2015? “Not surprisingly,” said the prosecutors, “the study showed that ‘Prop 47 did have an impact’ and ‘the larceny effect appears significant.”
“Only larceny, wrote the researchers, “appears to have an impact that is large relative to the unidentified variation observed in donor pool states.”
“Indeed, while the rest of the crimes that the study looked at, including auto theft, appear unaffected by the ballot proposition. Larceny, however, was, according to the study, although the authors appeared to downplay this part of their findings.”
Click here to read the complete article at WitnessLA.com.
Time.com has a new article up entitled Judge Orders California to Consider Earlier Parole for Sex Offenders:
“California said Monday that it will fight a judge’s ruling ordering the state to consider earlier parole for potentially thousands of sex offenders, such as those convicted of raping an unconscious person.
“Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration will appeal the order by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Allen Sumner, said Vicky Waters, spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The judge previously said in a tentative ruling that prison officials must rewrite part of the parole regulations in a ballot measure passed by voters in 2016.
“No inmates will be released while the appeal is underway, Waters said. She said in a statement that the ruling “does not reflect the intent of California’s voters who approved Proposition 57 by a 2-to-1 margin.”
The ADDA was mentioned in coverage of Prop. 57 at the Daily Wire:
“Meanwhile, a group of district attorneys has accused Gov. Brown and his allies of duping voters by distorting the definition of a ‘nonviolent’ felon.
“It’s very clear they intended to release violent offenders by re-describing them, despite their crimes, as nonviolent offenders,” Michele Hanisee, President of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys, told KNBC News.”
ADDA Vice President Eric Siddall appears on a 790 KABC News broadcast to discuss Prop 57 and the Keep California Safe Act. From the piece:
“In the meantime, some are looking at new legislation to fix things. That’s where the Keep California Safe Act of 2018 comes in.
“It would pretty much cover all sex offenders. That’s one of the primary purposes of the legislation.”
That’s Eric Siddall, Vice President of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys.
“It’s the only means right now that we have to end that loophole. The legislature is not really interested in enclosing the loophole, the governor is actually not really interested in closing the loophole so this proposition is really the only means that the voters are going to have to fix what Governor Brown promised.”
