18 prisoners seek reduced sentences under California's rarely used Racial Justice Act Attorneys from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Stanford Law School filed 18 petitions seeking to reduce the prison terms of people in five counties — including Los Angeles and Riverside — citing “gro...

One petitioner, John Crawford, is serving 45 years to life for attempted second-degree robbery.

His RJA filing argues Black defendants in L.A. County face sentences 36% longer than similarly charged white defendants.

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