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    Gascon appeals order that knocked down prior strikes directive to California Supreme Court

    by Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times Jul 15, 2022 3 minutes
    Family members clap as George Gascon announces his plan to run for L.A. district attorney at a media event across from the Twin Towers Correctional Facility on Oct. 28, 2019, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon wants the California Supreme Court to decide whether he has the authority to bar his prosecutors from seeking harsher punishment for repeat offenders.

    After being elected in 2020 on a pledge to radically change how the country’s largest prosecutorial office addresses crime, Gascon issued a “special directive” forbidding his deputies from using a defendant’s previous convictions for serious or violent felonies to obtain longer prison sentences.

    Under California’s Three Strikes law, enacted in

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