Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón defended his policy decision late Wednesday night in the 2009 case of Victor Bibiano, a juvenile charged with a double murder, who was released from serving a life sentence and went on to commit another murder.
At the time, Gascón declined to move Bibiano’s case from being tried as a juvenile to an adult.
Since Proposition 57 was passed by voters six years ago, all minors convicted in an adult court would go through another hearing to determine if they should be tried again as an adult or moved to a juvenile court. Bibiano’s case was subsequently sent to a juvenile court….