{"id":128410,"date":"2021-09-08T08:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=128410"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:53:01","slug":"state-prosecutors-outraged-over-zero-bail-release-of-violent-parolee-accused-of-vicious-murder-of-sacramento-woman-and-her-two-dogs-urge-rejection-of-zero-bail-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=128410","title":{"rendered":"State Prosecutors\u2014Outraged Over Zero Bail Release of Violent Parolee Accused of Vicious Murder of Sacramento Woman and Her Two Dogs\u2014Urge Rejection of Zero Bail Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…The California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) expressed outrage today that the suspect accused of the horrific sexual assault and brutal murder of a 61-year-old Sacramento woman on September 3, 3021, was released from prison following felony convictions in 2017 and 2018 for assault with a deadly weapon and robbery, committed more crimes in June, and then was released again because of \u201czero bail\u201d policies. <\/p>\n

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The suspect, Troy Davis, 51, was charged Tuesday by the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office with sexually assaulting and murdering the victim, killing her two dogs, and setting fire to her home in the Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento. <\/p>\n

\u201cNone of these appalling crimes would likely have occurred had this person been behind bars where he belonged,\u201d said Vern Pierson, president of CDAA. Pierson said the shocking murder was just the most recent example why the Legislature should reject Senate Bill 262, an overhaul of the state\u2019s bail system, scheduled for a vote on the Assembly floor later this week. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile CDAA remains committed to sensible bail reform, SB 262 is a fatally flawed measure. We had worked with Senator Hertzberg in the hopes of crafting a measure that would not sacrifice public safety in trying to create a better bail system. Unfortunately, this bill utterly fails to achieve that goal,\u201d Pierson said. <\/p>\n

Among the many deficiencies CDAA identified in SB 262 is language creating an \u201cability to pay\u201d provision that would allow those with substantial financial resources to be eligible for \u201czero bail\u201d simply by claiming that bail would be a hardship\u2014without any verification of their finances. Worse, the bill would allow an offender with one or more prior convictions for felony offenses, no matter how recent those convictions, to be eligible for zero bail. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou could drive a semi-truck through the loopholes in SB 262\u2014all of which will put more dangerous criminals back on our streets. It\u2019s past time for our elected representatives to put the rights and protection of law-abiding Californians ahead of reckless, so-called reforms like those contained in this bill,\u201d Pierson said. <\/p>\n

The California District Attorneys Association is a statewide training and advocacy organization representing elected district attorneys, city attorneys with criminal divisions, and more than 3,500 prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…The California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) expressed outrage today that the suspect accused of the horrific sexual assault and brutal murder of a 61-year-old Sacramento woman on September 3, 3021, was released from prison following felony convictions in 2017 and 2018 for assault with a deadly weapon and robbery, committed more crimes in June, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/70377661_2128228197479793_5611974547227017216_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128412,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128410\/revisions\/128412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}