Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price came under fire Wednesday for her office’s last-second bid to drop a key sentencing enhancement against a former sheriff’s deputy accused o…
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price came under fire Wednesday for her office’s last-second bid to drop a key sentencing enhancement against a former sheriff’s deputy accused of gunning down a Dublin couple inside their home 18 months ago.
Roughly two dozen family and friends of the couple appeared in court Wednesday, many wearing shirts emblazoned with Maria Tran’s face and the words, “Forever in our hearts.” Outside the courthouse, several of them protested the potential move with signs that read “PAMELA PRICE SOFT ON MURDERERS” and “Pamela Price Lets Murderers Go Free, Recall Her NOW!”
“There is nothing I can say that will relieve the pain and anger that they’re feeling with the loss of their loved ones,” Price said in the statement, adding that Williams could even spend “potentially a lifetime in prison.” The attorneys filed a motion March 15 asking for information that could shed light on whether Black defendants disproportiately faced the special-circumstances enhancement.
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