Gov. Gavin Newsom's pardon of Kruzan, who received a life sentence when she was 16, was cheered by supporters of criminal justice reform.
Sara Kruzan was trafficked and killed her abuser when she was 16 years old. Though released from prison, she is seeking a pardon from Gavin Newsom.and it’s not just my case,“Do I wanna move forward with love? Or do I wanna move forward with fear, anger and pain?” added Kruzan, who released her memoir, “I Cried to Dream Again,” earlier this year.his pardon letter,
Kruzan was 16 when she killed Howard, whom she knew as “GG” and who she said had sexually abused her and groomed her for sex work from the age of 11, and put her on the street two years later. The case against her was troubled from the start, advocates say, as the presiding judge ordered that she be tried as an adult and barred her attorney from introducing evidence at trial of past abuse by Howard.
Reform of the criminal justice system is long overdue, she said, especially when it comes to the “extreme traumatic stress and the realities of violence and abuse of what many girls are experiencing.” “Yes, society’s saying it, everybody’s saying it, but the system was never held accountable,” said Canales, who has known Kruzan since shortly after her release from prison.
Newsom also commuted the sentences of 15 current inmates and granted a reprieve to an inmate who is at high medical risk.
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