A 17-year-old California gang member charged as a juvenile for a double homicide carried out 5 years in the past is now charged in reference to one other homicide.
Shanice Dyer, a member of the East Coast Crips, was convicted of murdering Alfredo Carrera and his good friend, José Flores Velázquez in Los Angeles as a result of they had been standing within the gang’s territory, Fox 11 reported.
Dyer was charged with premeditated homicide by then-Los Angeles County District Legal professional Jackie Lacey and was set to be tried as an grownup. However when George Gascón took over as district lawyer, he had Dyer charged as a juvenile.
She was in custody for lower than 4 years earlier than being launched regardless of her conviction for 2 murders.
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Shanice Dyer, a member of the East Coast Crips, was convicted of murdering Alfredo Carrera and his good friend, José Flores Velázquez in Los Angeles. (iStock)
Now, Dyer is accused of aiding and abetting within the homicide of 21-year-old Joshua Streeter.
“Our coronary heart breaks for the sufferer and his household. That is an unimaginable tragedy. Nevertheless, it is rather unlikely that Ms. Dyer would have been transferred beneath any administration,” a spokesperson for Gascón’s workplace advised Fox 11. “Beneath the legislation, there are 5 components {that a} juvenile court docket would have thought-about and weighed in figuring out if Ms. Dyer had been amenable to stay within the juvenile system.”
“Of these 5 components, just one issue, the circumstances and gravity of the offense, weighed in favor of switch to grownup court docket,” the spokesperson stated. All the opposite components weighed in favor of Ms. Dyer remaining within the juvenile system. Given this, it’s extremely unlikely that Ms. Dyer would have been transferred to the grownup system even when the court docket had held a switch listening to.
When George Gascón took over as district lawyer, he had Dyer charged as a juvenile. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Occasions by way of Getty Photos)
The opposite 4 components, in accordance with the spokesperson, are that Dyer was beneath the affect of grownup males and acted at their course, which signifies that she didn’t exhibit a excessive diploma of prison sophistication; that she lacked any severe prison historical past on the time; the period of time and alternative that remained at the moment to rehabilitate her within the juvenile system and the absence of any earlier alternatives to rehabilitate her within the juvenile system.
The district lawyer’s Juvenile Different Charging Analysis Committee (JACE) was fashioned in March 2022. Since then, 23 switch requests have been authorized for switch motions to grownup court docket by JACE, in accordance with Fox 11.
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Dyer was in custody for lower than 4 years earlier than being launched regardless of her conviction for 2 murders. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Occasions by way of Getty Photos)
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The authorized circumstances embrace 5 switch motions which have gone to hearings earlier than the juvenile court docket, 4 that had been denied by the court docket, one which was granted by the court docket and one that’s nonetheless in progress.
