{"article":{"id":106083,"heading":"M24, Rally at Gov. LA office- clemency for Pamela Martinez","author":"twirl","created":"2004-03-25 00:19:50","modified":"2013-11-11 00:29:13","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:29:13","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>For Immediate Release <br>  <br> Monday, March 22, 2004 <br><br> Contact: <br>  <br> Genevieve Marcus, Media Coordinator, 323-938-4585, <br>  <br> <a href=\"mailto:drmarcus@pacbell.net\">drmarcus@pacbell.net<\/a> <br>  <br> Robert L. Smith, Media Coordinator, 323-428-8580, <br>  <br> <a href=\"mailto:drmarcus@pacbell.net\">drmarcus@pacbell.net<\/a> <br><br> THE LOS ANGELES GREENS JOIN ASSEMBLYMEMBER JACKIE GOLDBERG AND OTHERS <br>  <br> ASKING GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER TO PARDON PAMELA MARTINEZ <br><br> LOS ANGELES (March 22)- The Los Angeles Greens added their names today to the growing list of <br>  <br> California organizations and citizens asking Schwarzenegger for clemency <br>  <br> in the case of Pamela Martinez. <br><br> Pamela Martinez has already spent seven years in prison for the <br>  <br> non-violent theft of a small toolbox, and has rebuilt her life as a <br>  <br> productive citizen since her release in 2001. <br><br> Los Angeles Greens will participate in a rally Wednesday outside of Governor Schwarzenegger's Los Angeles office called by FACTS (Families to Amend California's Three Strikes) who has taken up the cause of Pamela Martinez, a victim of three-strikes sentencing laws  <br><br> DATE:&nbsp;Wednesday, March 24 <br><br> TIME:&nbsp;3pm to 6pm <br><br> WHERE: Governor's Office <br>  <br> 300 S. Spring Street <br>  <br> Los Angeles, CA <br><br> Attorney General Bill Lockyer has ordered her back to prison to serve an <br>  <br> additional 65 days for that same petty theft.&nbsp; If she is forced to <br>  <br> fulfill his order, she will lose her hard-won job and home. <br><br> Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg has submitted a request for clemency to <br>  <br> the governor on&nbsp;behalf of Ms. Martinez.&nbsp; The Los Angeles Greens urge <br>  <br> him to honor that request and save Ms. Martinez from a senseless, life <br>  <br> shattering extension to an already too long prison sentence. <br><br> 'How is California served by having a middle-aged woman who has already more than paid for her crime and rehabilitated her life,' said Genevieve Marcus, spokesperson for Los Angeles Greens.\"Lose it all in order to give the state 65 more days of incarceration?' <br><br> More info and sign ACLU petition at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artacts.org\">http:\/\/www.artacts.org<\/a> <br><br> The Los Angeles Greens <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losangelesgreens.org\">http:\/\/www.losangelesgreens.org<\/a> <br>  <br> 8124 W. Thirds Street #103 <br>  <br> L.A., CA 90048 <br>  <br> 323-651-5539 <br>  <br> ### <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Los Angeles Greens join Assemblymember Goldberg and others asking Gov. Schwarzenegger to pardon Pamela Martinez. Attorney General Bill Lockyer has spent 2 million of taxpayers dollars to order her back to prison to serve an additional 65 days for that same, non-violent petty theft.\u00a0 If she is forced to fulfill his order, she will lose her hard-won job and home.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/03\/106083.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}