Between 1978 and 2011, 15 men in Santa Clara County were sentenced to death for murders with special circumstances. In 2024, District Attorney Jeff Rosen expressed a desire to reduce these death sentences to life without parole, citing concerns about implicit bias and structural racism. Despite challenges, Rosen filed motions to dismantle the death penalty, overlooking legal criteria. Victim representation became crucial, as seen in the case of Richard Farley, where an attorney's arguments led to the denial of Rosen’s request to reduce Farley’s death sentence.
Attorney James McManis successfully argued that District Attorney Jeff Rosen's motion to reduce Richard Farley's death sentence should be rejected, emphasizing legal arguments ignored by Rosen.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen's plan to reduce death sentences in Santa Clara County claimed to address implicit bias and structural racism while more than half of those sentenced were White.
The reviewing judge dismissed Rosen's motions, stating they failed to meet legal criteria set forth in a new law for sentence reductions, specifically excluding death sentences.
The final case of Richard Farley saw the judge deny Rosen’s request, highlighting the importance of representation for victims' families by an attorney in the legal process.
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