Endorsement: Reelect Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : In doing so, they excluded jurors who opposed death sentences on principle -- and who therefore, studies suggest, would have been more skeptical of all evidence against the defendants.
37% : Hochman, a former federal prosecutor, has called Gascón the "wrong messenger" of criminal justice reform and argues that he will do a more responsible job of implementing reform policies.

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