Unit 1012 supports victims’ rights movement and we endorse the Recall George Gascon Campaign. Let us hear from Jessica Corde, the mother of Marquis Leblanc whose son’s killer was granted parole. Let us support her and the crime victims.
Jessica
Corde’s son, Marquis, was murdered in 2009. Marquis’ killer was granted parole
recently. Jessica was completely alone and abandoned at the parole hearing due
to the LA DA’s policies. The LA DA would not allow a prosecutor to be present
at the parole hearing and fight for her son, for justice, and for public
safety. This is unjust, unfair, and completely unacceptable.
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Mom grieving loss of murdered son shares emotional message to LA County DA George Gascón
By Gina Silva
Published
It’s the outcome Jessica Corde
prayed would never happen.
One of the men convicted in the
killing of her son Marquis Leblanc has been granted parole.
"When do I get to go up for
parole? My son don't get parole, he's locked in that casket forever. He don’t
get paroled," says Corde.
The murder happened on April 17,
2009. LeBlanc attended a party in Pomona.
Corde says, "He was asking
multiple Latino girls to dance and of course, the Latino men were offended.
They walked up to him and pointed to one’s neck and said, '(Racial slur), do
you know where you’re at?"
Deputy DA John McKinney was the
prosecutor in this case.
He says, "Not only was this
young man pummeled with hands and fists. He was disrobed, he was dragged around
in a street like garbage. He was then stabbed two times, once through the
heart, and then shot in the head, left for dead in the street."
Several men were arrested and
convicted for their involvement in the killing of Marquis LeBlanc. Martin Hora
was 16 at the time.
The day after LeBlanc was killed,
he texted: "Did the N — that we F-D up die?"
Next message: "Well, we
stomped the (bleep) out of his face."
Corde says, "There was no
remorse. There's still no remorse for me. They're dragging me out of the tomb
again, because everything about the case, I tried to bury."
Since LA County DA George Gascón
won’t allow anyone from his office to attend parole hearings, Corde had no
legal support.
Her message to Gascón is
this: "George Gascón, you have all this
compassion for people. What about me? What about my son? What about
the other mothers that are battling with depression and going into alcoholism
and drugs and pills and stuff, because they can't handle what happened to their
family, their son, their lives, their joy, their happiness? Where are you
for us, George Gascón?"
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.foxla.com/news/a-mothers-emotional-message-to-la-district-attorney-george-gascon
California murder victim's mother slams LA County DA: Gascón 'doesn't care’
Jessica
Corde, whose son's killer was granted parole, argues she 'should not have to
fight this hard'
Jessica Corde, whose son's killer
was granted parole last month, slammed L.A.
County District Attorney George Gascón and his policies, telling "Justice
with Judge Jeanine" on Saturday night that he "doesn’t care"
about murder victims.
"I should not have
to fight this hard for the justice that had already been given to my son," the emotional mother told host Jeanine Pirro.
Corde’s son Marquis Leblanc was
killed in April 2009 while attending a party in Pomona, Calif., Fox 11 reported, adding that one of the men convicted in
his murder had been granted parole in February.
Corde told Pirro her son was
beaten up by 14 to 20 people at the party and was then chased for 100 yards.
"They beat him with boards
and sticks," Corde said. "He had blunt force trauma to the head,
multiple fatal stab wounds, multiple non-fatal stab wounds, a gunshot wound to
the head, they stabbed him in the heart. They robbed him. They pulled
his pants down. They left him in the street naked."
"This is how treacherous
these people are," she stressed.
Corde told Pirro her son was the
only Black person at the party.
"He was asking multiple
Latino girls to dance and of course, the Latino men were offended. They walked
up to him and pointed to one’s neck and said, '(Racial slur), do you know where
you’re at?'" Corde said, describing what could have instigated the fight,
according to Fox 11.
"Everything about this case
has been a fight for me," Corde told Pirro. "Justice did not
just come for my son, I had to go for justice."
"They killed my son over and over and over again in Los Angeles County," she continued, adding that she has "to fight for my son."
"This man was granted parole
at the parole hearing," she said. "They didn't let us speak. We
cried. We tried to talk and do the things."
"He only did 11 years off of
a 15-year-to-life sentence," Corde added.
She said she had no legal support
during the hearing because Gascón won’t allow anyone from his office to attend
parole hearings, according to Fox 11, and, therefore, she tried to represent
herself.
She explained that when it was
"time for me to go to the parole hearing, they only gave me one week's
notice."
"I had no representation and
I ended up having to ask for my son's file so that I could represent my son as
if I was a prosecutor," Corde said. "Instead of being given my impact
statement, I was literally trying to do the legal part to help them understand
what really happened to my son."
"I've never seen my son's
murder pictures before," she added as she held back tears. "In one
week, I had to have emergency medical care because of that, me having to try to
do the prosecutor's job."
Gascón is currently facing a recall effort similar to the one faced by California
Gov. Gavin Newsom.
FAMILIES OF CRIME VICTIMS PUSH TO RECALL LA DA GASCON, CALLING
HIS POLICIES A 'SLAP IN THE FACE'
Recall organizers held a "victim’s vigil" last weekend to gather the 20
signatures needed from L.A. County residents to formally launch the recall
process.
The effort needs to garner just
under 600,000 signatures from registered Los Angeles voters, or 10% of the
voter roll, to force the newly elected district attorney to run
again.
The day he took office in
December, Gascón announced a slew of sweeping changes, including stopping the
use of sentencing enhancements, restricting when prosecutors can hold
defendants without bail, ending the use of the death penalty in L.A. County and
banning the practice of trying juveniles as adults.
On Saturday, Corde stressed that
"no other family should have to sit there and go through what me and my
family did."
A spokesperson with Gascón’s
office did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment. However,
in a statement sent to Fox News last week on the topic, Gascón said that the
"pain and trauma of losing a loved one is immeasurable."
"While a minority of victims
want the maximum punishment imposed in their case, research shows these views
are not shared by a majority of survivors of violent crime, as most survivors
don’t find healing by putting another person in a cage," he continued.
"Additionally, studies show
that excessive sentencing practices have exacerbated recidivism leading to more
victims of crime."
Gascón went on to write,
"Our system of justice can’t continue to rely on policies that create more
victims tomorrow simply because a minority of victims want the maximum
punishment imposed in their case today."
An emotional Corde told Pirro she
is calling on Newsom to get involved and help her with her son’s case.
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A spokesperson for Newsom did not
immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment regarding whether he will
get involved in Corde’s case.
Fox News’ Morgan Phillips
contributed to this report.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/emotional-murder-victims-mother-slams-la-county-da-gascon-doesnt-care
RELATED LINKS:
A
mother's voice needs to be heard in regards to the lack of support via the
parole board hearings. Her son was killed in a hate crime. Why didn't the
federal government step in. He was murdered by a group of Hispanic and one of
the youngest one of the group was granted parole under Gascon new policies.
Where is her justice at? This put a lot on a mom who hurt want what is right in
honor of her child. Jeseca Luvslife Corde
https://www.facebook.com/lashawn.thomas.79/videos/3720104458084878
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3350621811720081/permalink/3792139387568319
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196987878/marquis-tivae-leblanc
https://news.yahoo.com/blm-leader-gasc-n-back-100106436.html
OTHER LINKS:
https://recallgeorgegascon.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/recallgeorgegascon
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/families-of-crime-victims-recall-la-da-gascon-policies-face
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