The self-serving sandbagger is at it again.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen is once again proving that politics guides his moral compass, not people.
Rosen wants you to think he’s tough on crime and political corruption. It’s why he demanded that Anthony Becker serve “significant” jail time for perjury. Rosen made sure his opinion was heard in the brief filed with the court that carried his name and title.
But did you know on the same day Becker was supposed to be sentenced, one of Rosen’s other political agendas was being carried out in a different Santa Clara County courtroom? One where Rosen asked the court to commute the death sentence for Richard Farley, the man who walked into a Sunnyvale office building in 1988 and killed seven people and injured several others.
Farley is now 76.
Whether you agree with the death penalty or not, we can all agree Farley will likely be dead before another death sentence is carried out in California.
But that doesn’t matter to Rosen. He has a political agenda to pursue, and that agenda, in this case, includes forcing people to relive the pain, anger and sadness of the past all because it makes a good headline.
Rosen lost the request. But winning wasn’t the point. It was the headline that mattered.
For Rosen, looking good for the constituents has always been the most important thing. Never mind the cruelty he inflicted on the family, friends and coworkers of Farley’s victims who were forced to confront a man they thought they were done with more than 30 years ago.
This is Rosen’s MO. Cruelty for the sake of politics.
Because both of these cases will be talking points for Rosen as he runs for re-election in 2028 or perhaps a higher office sooner.
Demanding that Becker, who was convicted of a nonviolent crime, serve jail time so that his victims may get justice while at the same time trying to strip the victims of a mass murderer of their own justice is the height of hypocrisy.
But then again, we’ve come to expect nothing less from our illustrious District Attorney.
Justice indeed.
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