Jessica Corde (Jessica Corde) has experienced the nightmare of every mother.Her 18-year-old son, Marquis LeBlanc, is Cruelly killed in 2009 – He was beaten, stabbed, hit on the head, stripped naked, his lifeless body remained in the street, just because he was black and unknowingly appeared at the wrong party in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Become a goal. In the end, 10 men from the Tinto Killers gang were convicted of murdering the Marquis in 2010.
Allegedly, at the parole application hearing in February 2021, the leader Martin Harrow told the Deputy Commissioner of the Parole Board that he had launched a racial riot in prison during which he brutally beat a black prisoner, and he was beating the prisoner. At the same time, he was thinking about LeBron Marquis. Harrow admitted to being involved with the gang in prison. Moreover, a report submitted by a psychologist determined that Harrow is at a moderate risk of future violence. Inexplicably, Haro is still recommended for parole-a heartbreaking continuation of Corde’s nightmare.
When I received the record of the hearing—after being obstructed for four months and forced to involve my state representative—I discovered that the 50-minute record was missing. Guess which 50 minutes it is? Yes, most of Martin Harrow’s testimony discussed the prison riots. very convenient.
Fortunately, and possibly due to Jessica Cod’s very public and heartbreaking media appearance, detailing the despicable way of handling Harrow’s parole suitability hearing, Governor Gavin Newsom overturned the parole board’s recommendation And Haro is still in jail—for now. According to an email I received from the Parole Hearing (BPH), he will be released on parole again in August 2022.
Although BPH hopes this is the end of the story, it is not the case. How did this happen? Why did the important testimony of nearly an hour disappear without anyone caring? Why can this deputy commissioner so recklessly and cruelly ignore the victim’s family? What would happen if Corde hadn’t made such a fuss in the media?
One factor that led to the way and results of the hearing is that since the newly elected DA George Gascon issued an order prohibiting the deputy DA from participating in the parole hearing and even opposed even if the prisoner is determined to be at a moderate risk of future violence, such as Haro.
Look: Gascon’s special order for parole hearing was strongly opposed by the victim’s mother upset
Because of the order, Corde and her family are the only people there who oppose parole. Since she is not the deputy district attorney, she cannot ask Haro questions. She was only allowed to publish a victim statement. In a radio interview with Larry O’Connor, Cod relayed some of what Harrow told the deputy commissioner:
At the parole hearing [Haro] Say the only thing [Marquis] It did appear black that night. “We hate black people. We don’t treat them as human beings. A black person will show up at our party and we feel disrespectful.”
They chased my son for 100 yards. He caught him, and he said, “I hit him, I stepped on him, I hit him, until my family boy finished the rest of the work.”
In front of my family… he said, “I killed him only because he was black.” He said, “I did it again when I was in jail. I started a race riot, but I escaped. When I When stepping on that boy, I thought of Marquis LeBron.” He said all this at the parole hearing, and they still granted him parole.
Corde was shocked and angry. One of the deputy commissioners, Deborah San Juan, didn’t seem to care about the cruelty of her son’s murder or what Haro admitted to doing during his imprisonment. He was obviously more concerned about Haro’s feelings:
Then at the parole hearing, she said, “Well, you can stop talking because I am not here to judge his crime. I am only here to judge what he did in prison.”
Then we sat there and confided our feelings to her, and then she turned around in front of us, Deborah San Juan, in front of my family, and said to him: “Congratulations, you have been released on parole.”
Then he started crying, and then she said, “Oh, are you crying? Don’t cry. We won’t use your past against you,” in front of my family.
The retired Los Angeles Police Department detective Moses Castillo heard about the parole hearing at the last minute and attended with his family as an advocate of Marcy’s law. His statement confirmed Corde’s statement.
Haro admitted that 2 BOP defeated another black prisoner at the age of 20 in 2014. “When I beat him, I thought of the Marquis.” The board did not give much consideration because it was recorded in his file. They were surprised to hear that this happened. https://t.co/if2GPzmVLx
— Detective Moses Castillo dlawgroup.com (@DetectiveMoses) February 11, 2021
When I heard Corde’s interview with Larry O’Connor, I decided to request a transcript of the hearing so that I could directly quote what each participant said when I finally reported the story. On March 11, 2021, I completed the online request for the transcript and received an automatic response. Generally, the transcript is available 30 days after the hearing (it is true) and it takes 10 days to process.
The next day, I received an update notification, informing me that “the prisoner’s transcript needs additional review” and allowed 10 to 14 working days, but due to COVID-19 and employees working remotely, it may take longer. Fully expected.
Well, a month later, I still didn’t hear any news, so I followed up on April 15.
reply:
Thank you for your inquiry. Unfortunately, due to Covid restrictions and telecommuting, your request is still being processed. The office receives a large number of requests every day, so it is not uncommon for them not to get a response at this time. “
I was frustrated, but decided to wait another month. On May 11, I asked about the status via email again. There was no response this time, so I contacted my congresswoman Suzette Valladares for help. Thanks to the help of Valladares office, I finally received the transcript on July 16th.
The email states:
Upon your request, the record of the prisoner Harrow’s parole hearing is attached. Please note that Governor Newsom overturned prisoner Harrow’s application for parole on May 21, 21.
Inmate Harrow is still in jail.
So why does this take so long? Did they wait until they knew what Newsom was going to do before releasing the report card? Is this related to the recall petition that was still circulating when I first asked for the transcript? I decided to put these ideas aside and study the report card in depth, because whether Newsom withdrew or accepted the parole offer has nothing to do with what I was looking for in the report card.
When I read through the transcript, I was surprised that I couldn’t find anything mentioned by Jessica Corde. I found many other errors (grammar, “inaudible”, etc.), but I couldn’t find Haro to say too much. So I took a closer look. I found that at the beginning of the transcript, the hearing was suspended for a short adjournment, and then when the hearing resumed, the first sentence in the transcript was Harrow’s answer to a question. But the problem does not exist.
Another adjournment was announced five pages later. Based on the time of reading the record, I was able to determine that about 50 minutes of listening time had not been transcribed. Moreover, there are no missing notes in the transcript—it’s as if someone (whether it’s a transcription company or a parole hearing) wants readers to think that this is a complete transcript.
Since I worked as an official court reporter in North Carolina before entering journalism and prepared similar types of transcripts, I know what they should look like and what high-quality transcripts consist of-even if they are passed without a court reporter Recorded recordings are completed in the presence, such as this parole suitability hearing. It is totally unacceptable that the transcript of the hearing does not have some kind of comment indicating that the transcript is incomplete.
In addition, there are 89 “inaudible” in the 93-page transcript (including index and certificate pages), which means there is an audio that the transcriber cannot decipher, and a large number of wording errors. Here are some examples.
They shot him “directly”, maybe?
Anyone who reads it knows that it doesn’t make sense.
“Mexican clamp killer.” Sounds like a tough gang.
I wrote a letter to Asm describing these shortcomings. Valladares’ office and asked them to follow up the CDCR. I want a copy of the recording to compare with the transcript. This is the response received via Asm on August 27, 2021. Valadares Office:
it says:
Our parole hearing committee reviewed the hearing recordings and transcripts and will provide Jennifer Van Laar with corrected transcripts to clarify minor errors in the transcription. However, due to recording problems, some of the hearings were not recorded on the tape and therefore could not be transcribed. Although this is regrettable, the committee was able to review the parole approval through the hearing team’s decision, which has been recorded and transcribed, and also through the documents available to the hearing team. According to the committee’s regulations, all relevant and reliable information available to the expert panel should be considered when determining whether it is suitable for parole.
The board also noted that on May 21, 2020, the Governor revoked Martin Haro’s parole. Therefore, Martin Haro will accept another parole consideration hearing on or before August 10, 2022.
Although this is unfortunate? Obviously, since Governor Newsom revoked his parole, he did not agree with the investigation results of the two deputy commissioners. If we had not heard Harrow’s testimony, we would not know what the deputy commissioner’s basis was. If I were Haro’s consultant, I would scream out for it. However, Newsom may have the advantage of hearing this audio. Why didn’t he mention that he couldn’t hear all of Harrow’s testimony, so there was not enough reason to refuse or accept parole and order another hearing? Of course, no one wants Corde to experience it again. But the sequence of events is not consistent with the actions of related personnel.
Does anyone, whether in the legislature, the parole hearing committee, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, defense lawyers, prosecutors, or victims’ defenders, care about the poor work done by contractors in protecting records?
This is… This is Gavin Newson’s California. Everyone shrugged and shuffled.
