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Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is calling out the swift reversal of many of her landmark initiatives just over 100 days after her successor, Ursula Jones Dickson, took office.
Since the county’s Board of Supervisors appointed Jones Dickson following Price’s recall in January, she has quietly withdrawn death row resentencing efforts for at least four people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias. For decades, Price has said, the office under prior district attorneys had covered up its practice of excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases.
Jones Dickson has also dropped what Price called historic environmental justice charges and restructured her landmark Public Accountability Unit, which aimed to review police misconduct cases…