The government stated that their request was in light of other defendants in the case who have been sentenced and the AG not wanting to “scapegoat Meno” who they say only played an intermediary role as the “go-between” in the case. While the offense calls for maximum incarceration of five years for each count, the government requested no jail time, asking instead for Meno to be placed on probation. The AG noted that Meno was one of the defendants to take a deal early on in the case and that his cooperation with the government led to subsequent deals being taking by other defendants in the case. The Attorney General’s Office pointed out in court that Meno accepted a deal pleading guilty to two counts of giving bribes as a 3rd-degree felony. He was handed a suspended sentence of three years incarceration, which means he will not spend any time in jail. “I am not a bad person, I just made the wrong decision,” stated Ronald Meno, the man who bribed former DOC head of internal affairs Jeff Limo into smuggling contraband into the Department of Corrections. So far, none of the defendants who have been sentenced for their roles in the Department of Corrections contraband conspiracy case will do time. Those inmates would then re-sell the pages to other inmates at a rate of 1,500 per page. Much like Boudin's other shakes ups - not prosecuting public camping and prostitution Boudin withdrawing charges against a man who allegedly attacked an SF police officer in December - was again met with disdain from San Francisco Police Officers Association President Tony Montoya: " is emboldening criminals and we are all going to pay a steep price for his absurd policies.Ronald Meno, the man who bribed former DOC head of internal affairs Jeff Limo into smuggling contraband into the Department of Corrections, was handed a suspended sentence of three years incarceration, which means he will not spend any time in jail. Montanez-Mirabal would bring these prohibited items into FDC-Miami and then either deliver them directly to the inmates or hide them in places where the inmate paying him would be able to recover the contraband. These sweeping policy changes come just days after Mayor Breed and District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney came out in support of safe-injection sites in San Francisco. “We urge the police to continue getting weapons off the street and enforcing traffic laws, but to do so in a way that is not racially motivated, and that does not continue to undermine the relationship between the communities where most crimes are committed and the police and law enforcement agencies that are sworn to serve and protect there,” Boudin adds, per the SF Examiner. In fact, 45 percent of those serving a life sentence based on the three strike charges are African-American, according to a Stanford Law School (SLS) study.īoudin, too, is also calling for the San Francisco Police Department to continue "getting weapons off streets and enforcing traffic laws," though executing so without racial or other cultural prejudices in mind.
“Instead, they led to mass incarceration, targeted innocent black and brown drivers, and increased recidivism, they stand in the way of fairness and justice.”īoudin's office is also eliminating the use of California's three-strike law, a sentencing system that gives defendants a prison sentence of 25 years to life should they be convicted of three severe or serious felonies. “Pretextual stops and sentencing enhancements based on who you know rather than what you did are relics of the tough-on-crime era that failed to make us safer,” said the SF DA during the same news conference, according to KRON4. People found with illegal goods that were obtained through stop-and-frisk style "pretextual" searches will no longer be charged, and those who'd otherwise be subjected to sentence enhancements - also called “aggravating factors” which allow judges to increase a defendant's sentence beyond the normal range, based on conditions like gang-relation and past histories in hostile crimes - won't be, anymore. “We will no longer participate in, condone, tolerate or amplify racist police tactics.” "Today we take action, we send a message that is loud and clear to the police department and to communities of color,” he said at a news conference on Friday, as published by the media outlet. The first is to stop charging status sentencing enhancements that contribute to mass incarceration, worsen racial disparities in our system, and make us less safe. Today we announced two major policy changes in our office.
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