Entries tagged with “San Bernardino”
Policy Issues
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Representation
,Oct 31, 2016
OUTLIER COUNTIES: San Bernardino, California Shares Problematic Patterns of Neighboring Counties
San Bernardino County, California is one of five Southern California counties that have produced more death sentences since 2010 than 99.5% of all U.S. counties. Along with its neighbors, Kern County, Riverside County, Orange County, and Los Angeles County, San Bernardino forms a “new Death Belt,” a region with high numbers of death sentences marked by overzealous prosecutors and poor…
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Sentencing Data
,Sep 10, 2015
Southern California Tops Deep South in New Death Sentences Amid Mounting Evidence of Misconduct
Riverside County, California is “the buckle of a new Death Belt,” says Professor Robert J. Smith of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, producing 7 death sentences in the first half of 2015. This, Smith says, is “more than California’s other 57 counties combined, more than any other state, and more than the whole Deep South…