another talking about expungement, one or two expungement or set aside. the floodgate theory that the house numbers were told about was that in the last month, in the last day, judge porteous issued an unusually high number of the bonds in repayment for the beef and other benefits from the marcottes. the only problem with the floodgates allegation, that happens to be completely and demonstrably untrue. it turns out that there was only one bond signed by judge porteous on his last day come and only 29 signed in the last month. it actually falls to 27 if you look at from the time he was confirmed. this is described by the marcottes in their testimony as the average number of bonds for any period. there's no floodgate. however, to dispel any doubt we asked the gretna clerk to send us a random year from judge porteous the tenure as a state judge. we selected 1986. we had no information on that year come other than the fact that it was before the marcottes established themselves in the bond business. one of the best ways to look at whether the floodgates theor

i do not call it expunge because there's no true excitement, but the dismissals, they are not eligible for that which makes it hard to get jobs because most job applications ask a question about criminal history and convictions. they cannot lawfully answer no convictions. then, they are subject to extensive criminal background checks from commercial companies, and i know quarries will talk about the impact of that. they cannot work. the zero court fines and fees often, and they cannot pay his back, which means they can i get dismissal even when they are off probation. you can see the cycle that goes on here. people do not know that they are not eligible for applying for fire services after many of these. we have had clients pick up new misdemeanors for applying to own a firearm. sometimes, what was really happen is people would pay a great deal of money to get into some of the technical schools, truck driving schools. they want to become a certified businesses and, these low-wage jobs. they pay money to go through the training programs and graduate and find out they are ineligible for

suddenly, the floodgates theory is not about bonds, but it is about two expungement cases. a state judge porteous would not set aside the wallace case because he did not want to do that before u.s. confirmed. the only problem is that it is on true. the conviction was set aside on september 21, 1994, before he was confirmed. not only that, but in the hearing he said he attended -- intended to expand the record before he was confirmed. that was in open court. all that remains in this case is the fact that he signed bonds for them. virtually all of the judge's had signed bonds for them for one simple reason. they reportedly did 95% or more of the bonding in that small town. virtually no one else was doing bonds there. if you take any judge, you will find roughly 95% of the bonds came from them for that obvious reason. that heear testimony was a national advocate for the use of bonds for the criminal process. it was the case were virtually any prisoner in mint one prisoner out. it was one of the most stringent court orders in the nation. people, thousands, were just vanishing.

that expunged the record. that meant the record couldn't be picked up. >> now, in this se, in the duhon matter, we earlier looked at an order signed by judge richards setting aside a sentence in that case. when you have set aside motion like that, isn't that the key motion that you look at? >> on that type of thing, yes, it would have been the key motion that would to it. >> as opposed to the expungement. >> set aside -- there are some rules in law, if it happened after they tried to change the sentence after the sentence was being executed, there was some statues that didn't allow the court to do that. they couldn't go back and change it once it was being executed, okay? >> that's -- that's all my questions for now, mr. mamoulides. thank you very much. i can pass the witness. >> thank you, mr. turley. cross-examination. >> mr. mamoulides, when you first became the district attorney, did assistant district attorneys have some power to set bonds in certain cases? >> yes. when i became an assistant in 19 -- i th

, your eyeballs will fall out of your head, but it basically updates penal code section 1204a the expunge men or dismissal remedy, and brings it up to the same level as 120 3.4. the point is in some cases, people who can get that a remedy for cases when they did not go to prison, there will be eligible to legally say -- some people, certain jobs, they are able to answer "no convictions" for certain jobs, but again, is a far cry from now even having to answer those questions. the problem with the laws in california are that they are very piecemeal. they were written over a long stretch of time. they do not really interact with each other very well, and did not do as much -- i feel like i am being so negative, so i'm going to try to think of something positive. they do sell certain people. a major problem we have is that for people who have gone to prison in california, for this cases for which they were sentenced, the only remedy is something called a certificate of rehabilitation, which is so far from expunge meant -- it is a gold star on your criminal record that you get to take around a

by the way,what judge porteous did was an expungement and not a set aside? >> either both or either or. >> you are not sure which one? >> i am not exactly sure. >> and expendables -- an expungement is fairly routine? >> yes. >> they are, because they tended to give people second chances. >> yes, sir. the's in this case, was offense that was expunged an event that occurred 17 years previously? >> yes, sir. >> was 17 years old at the time? >> yes, sir. >> judge porteous 61 jet offense he a -- that happened when he was 17 years old that happened 17 years previously. >> yes, sir. >> was your sister friends with rhonda? >> yes, they were friends. >> they would socialize with the to other? >> yes, they would. >> go on trips together? >> yes they would. >> is it true that sometimes they would help you with social events? >> yes, she would. >> including planning trips in las vegas? >> yes. we would use her as an overflow. >> it was a side job? >> i would not call it a job. she would make arrangements. >> did you testify that she would do this kind of planning as a s

sent to state prison, there is a seven-year waiting period before you can fight to have your record expunged through a pardon process. our third panel will be talking about that issue. so we've got a great program for you today. and i know you're going to enjoy it. i'm now going to introduce two speakers. two great leaders who are the heads of two of the most progressive legal organizations in california. the first is arturo gonzalez, the president of the bar association of san francisco. arturo is one of the top trial lawyers in the nation and he's a partner at morrison forester. we've had the pleasure of working with the bar association for -- over the past 20 years to provide services to people who can't afford lawyers when the public defender is not available and so we're very pleased to have arturo here on behalf of the bar association. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. three days ago in one of the most closely watched supreme court cases this term, graham versus florida, the united states superior court forbid the sentences of a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of p

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