'I just feel like the system is just, it really just failed me.' Alameda County prosecutors have informed a San Leandro mother that the teenage gang member who shot and killed her son in January will be back on the streets in as little as four years.
Everyone gets released from Juvenile Hall by the time they're 25, but sources inside the DA's Office tell me the gunman could be out in two to three years if he follows the program. His mother declined to comment after the hearing. Riley directed her anger at District Attorney Pamela Price.
ABC7 News also never received an answer for a request for an interview with the DA, after calling and emailing her spokesperson. Price did address her vision for juvenile justice at her first staff meeting in March at the Oakland Arena, video we obtained using the California Public Records Act. Price said, "We want to end harsh penalties. We don't want three strikes. We want to give young people another way, another pathway.
Frankie Guzman of the National Center for Youth Law told us, "The prosecution must demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that a young person cannot be rehabilitated within the juvenile court system in order for a judge to be empowered to transfer the young person to the adult system."Guzman says juvenile justice laws are not focused on punishment, but on rehabilitation. "Because the truth is, that young person will ultimately more than likely will get out one day.
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