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Crime victims and many in the police community have criticized new LA County District Attorney George Gascon’s changes, which eliminated certain sentencing enhancements that add years to prison terms. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021.

Sacramento County’s chief prosecutor has informed Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon that her office will no longer grant him jurisdiction over any crimes that involve Sacramento County because of Gascon’s special directives that have been criticized by victims’ advocates as too soft on crime.

New DA George Gascon says his reforms will not be slowed by his own prosecutors. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020.

The union representing Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging newly seated District Attorney George Gascon’s directives to eliminate three-strikes allegations and some sentencing enhancements, alleging the moves are “unlawful.”

The union that represents most prosecutors who work at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office plans to ask a judge to issue a temporary restraining order Wednesday that would block newly-elected DA George Gascon from implementing a number of reform policies that the association claims are unethical or even illegal for prosecutors to carry-out.

George Gascon agrees to keep tougher sentencing rules in some cases. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.

Bowing to pressure, newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has amended his directive to eliminate sentencing enhancements and will now allow them in cases involving the most vulnerable victims and in specified “extraordinary” circumstances.

Some are relieved that child abuse and hate crimes could still face tougher punishment. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.

LA County District Attorney George Gascon said Tuesday no exceptions would be made to his new rule that bans prosecutors from filing sentencing enhancements in criminal cases, no matter how terrible the crime. “I do believe that enhancements have driven mass incarceration in this country and I do believe that they’re racist,” he told reporters in a remote video...

“I was very clear about what I was going to do,” Gascon tells critics. Eric Leonard reported on NBC4 News on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon on Monday outlined sweeping plans for criminal justice reform as he was sworn-in to office, including major changes in how cases are charged, the use of cash bail, the removal of sentencing enhancements, and an expansion of efforts to overturn unjust convictions.

George Gascon will be sworn in Monday as Los Angeles County’s 43 district attorney.

Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has selected a deadly 2015 police shooting in Long Beach as one of four cases he plans to reopen, it was reported Friday.

George Gascon called it a long road ahead and issued an apology. Beverly White reported on NBC4 News on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020.

LA County District Attorney Jackie Lacey concession today cleared a path for new leadership of the nation’s largest team of prosecutors. Beverly White reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Nov. 6, 2020.

The incumbent Jackie Lacey concedes defeat to George Gascón. Her concession comes exactly eight years to the very same day that she became the first woman and first black prosecutor to hold that post. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020.

George Gascon help an early lead, but incumbent Jackie Lacey felt confident that she was closing the gap. Beverly White reported on NBC4 News on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

Derrick Harris was an admitted gang affiliate with a prior felony, but he was not involved in the armed robbery for which he’s spent the last seven years in prison, a Judge ruled Tuesday in throwing out the conviction.

Mayor Eric Garcetti switched his endorsement in the Los Angeles County district attorney’s race Sunday from incumbent Jackie Lacey to challenger George Gascon.

San Francisco has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former city investigator who claimed retaliation after expressing concerns that former district attorney George Gascon was allegedly carrying firearms on flights in violation of federal law.