Proponents of a drive to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón say the progressive prosecutor is “going easy” on a couple accused of killing a 10-year-old boy after his office dropped its bid for the death penalty this week.
City News Service reports, Heather Maxine Barron, 31, and her boyfriend, Kareem Ernesto Leiva, 35, were charged in the June 2018 death of Barron’s son, Anthony Avalos. According to the outlet, both could now face a maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted as charged of murder and torture. Prosecutors had added a special-circumstance allegation of murder involving the infliction of torture to the underlying charges, which had made Barron and Leiva eligible for capital punishment.
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