Justice Malibu Style
Registered sex offender Robert Leo St George also did prison time for shooting Actor Jameson Parker
I don’t know whether it’s a coincidence but it seems that child molesters used to get kid-glove treatment at the Malibu courthouse before it was closed….especially if they were white and rich. For background on one of these cases, check out Robert Leo St. George: http://janbtucker.com/blog/2011/03/24/a-tale-of-3-sex-offenders/
Section 288(a) of the California Penal Code says:
Except as provided in subdivision (i), any person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1, upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child who is under the age of 14 years, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.
As pointed out in the above blog linked story, I wrote about St. George:
With competence like that, it is no wonder that the District Attorney’s office agreed in 2003 to strike Robert St. George’s prior conviction so that instead of using sentence enhancements and the Three Strikes law to double a state prison sentence, he got probation for molesting two (2) developmentally disabled young girls! Today he lives about a tenth of a mile from Hermosa View Elementary School.
Like St. George, Robert Lee Brown is rich and white. The assessed value of his home alone is $1,114,620. The Zillow off-market “Zestimate” is $3,916,081. So like St. George it probably shouldn’t surprise anybody that when Brown was charged in Case No. SA041957 in 2001 with four (4) counts of violating section 288(a) of the Penal Code he plea bargained down to one count and then got a sentence of three (3) years probation with a suspended prison sentence and $200.00 restitution. Even more astounding is that the court appointed a top forensic psychiatrist for Brown’s defense at court expense!
Compare that treatment with another case I recently saw. 24 years old, non-white, charged with only one count of PC 288(a) in 1993 (unlike St. George and Brown who each had multiple counts). Poor and qualified for the services of the public defender. Result, entered a guilty plea without even getting a preliminary hearing, was never advised by his attorney or the court that he could be deported if he pled guilty, and now after never having a single problem since then all of a sudden facing potential deportation.
As Civil Rights icon H. Rap Brown said in the 60s, “Justice in America means ‘Just Us white folk.'”
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