For Immediate Release

Monday, March 22, 2004

Contact:

Genevieve Marcus, Media Coordinator, 323-938-4585,

drmarcus@pacbell.net

Robert L. Smith, Media Coordinator, 323-428-8580,

drmarcus@pacbell.net

THE LOS ANGELES GREENS JOIN ASSEMBLYMEMBER JACKIE GOLDBERG AND OTHERS

ASKING GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER TO PARDON PAMELA MARTINEZ

LOS ANGELES (March 22)- The Los Angeles Greens added their names today to the growing list of

California organizations and citizens asking Schwarzenegger for clemency

in the case of Pamela Martinez.

Pamela Martinez has already spent seven years in prison for the

non-violent theft of a small toolbox, and has rebuilt her life as a

productive citizen since her release in 2001.

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

DATE: Wednesday, March 24

TIME: 3pm to 6pm

WHERE: Governor's Office

300 S. Spring Street

Los Angeles, CA

Attorney General Bill Lockyer has ordered her back to prison to serve an

additional 65 days for that same petty theft.  If she is forced to

fulfill his order, she will lose her hard-won job and home.

Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg has submitted a request for clemency to

the governor on behalf of Ms. Martinez.  The Los Angeles Greens urge

him to honor that request and save Ms. Martinez from a senseless, life

shattering extension to an already too long prison sentence.

'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?'

More info and sign ACLU petition at http://www.artacts.org

The Los Angeles Greens

http://www.losangelesgreens.org

8124 W. Thirds Street #103

L.A., CA 90048

323-651-5539

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