Metropolitan News-Enterprise: Supervisor Barger Lectures Gascón on Constitutional Responsibilities

Decries Policy Under Which No Deputy District Attorney Will Appear at Hearing to Oppose Parole for Man Who Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted Young Children

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger has taken issue with one of District Attorney George Gascón’s “special directives,” under which no prosecutor will be present at the parole hearing on March 11 for Ruben Beltran, who was convicted in 2009 of aggravated sexual assault of a young boy and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
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