The lawsuit by former Attorney General John Van de Kamp and Ron Briggs, whose father wrote the ballot measure that expanded California's death penalty in 1978, said the reform measure would disrupt the courts, cost more money and limit the ability to mount proper appeals. They said the deadlines wou
Date: Dec 20, 2016
Category: U.S.
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State Supreme Court puts measure to speed up executions on hold
The suit was filed a day after the election by former state Attorney General John Van de Kamp and Ron Briggs, a former El Dorado County supervisor whose father, state Sen. John Briggs, sponsored the states current death penalty law as a 1978 ballot measure.
Date: Dec 20, 2016
Category: U.S.
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Lawsuit Claims Proposition 66 Violates the Constitution
"Proposition 66 violates the constitution by keeping the [state] Supreme Court and the appeals court out of the system, said Ron Briggs, a former El Dorado County supervisor who is one of two names on the lawsuit filed one day after Election Day that calls the legality of Proposition 66 into questi
Date: Nov 14, 2016
Category: Business
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Death penalty foes ask court to pre-emptively block Proposition 66 streamlining measure
The petition filed Wednesday with the California Supreme Court by former Attorney General John Van de Kamp and Ron Briggs, whose father wrote the ballot measure that expanded Californias death penalty in 1978, said the reform measure would disrupt the courts, cost more money and limit the ability t
People like Ron Briggs, El Dorado County Supervisor and his father, Senator John Briggs, the author of the Briggs Death Penalty initiative, which passed in 1978, have come out in favor of Proposition 34, along with many other who were initially opposed: Gil Garcetti, the Los Angeles county attorney
Retired prosecutor Donald Heller, who wrote the 1978 proposition, and Ron Briggs, the initiative's campaign manager who now serves on the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, say they support abolition in California because the system is too costly and hardly anyone is being put to death.
Date: Jun 09, 2012
Category: U.S.
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Measure that would end death penalty in California qualifies for ballot
Backing the new measure are Ron Briggs, who ran the 1978 campaign for a successful ballot initiative that expanded the reach of California's death penalty; Donald J. Heller, an ex-prosecutor who wrote the 1978 initiative; Jeanne Woodford, a former warden of San Quentin State Prison who oversaw four
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