Last week, CalMatters reported that newly-appointed Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson had begun withdrawing death penalty resentencing petitions filed by her predecessor, Pamela Price.
The story, entitled “New Alameda County DA Changes Course on Historic Death Penalty Resentencing,” described the shift as limited to four cases and framed it as a disagreement over legal strategy.
But a deeper look reveals a far more sweeping and troubling campaign—one that threatens to unravel years of work uncovering unconstitutional practices by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office (ACDAO) and reinstate a system defined by prosecutorial misconduct…