CA Gang Member on PRCS Arrested for Triple Homicide:  A documented gang member freed under California's AB 109 law was arrested last week for fatally shooting three people, including a nine-year-old, on July 8.  Doug Saunders of the San Bernardino County Sun reports that Trayvon Eshawn Brown, 26, was arrested last Thursday at the office of his probation officer for gunning down a nine-year-old boy, his father and another man outside a liquor store, allegedly motivated by an ongoing violent history between brown and one of the men.  Brown was on Post Release Community Supervision at the time of the shooting, stemming from a June 2013 conviction for an attempt to evade a peace officer with reckless driving.  Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said, "We're finding it's a reoccurring thing that we're making contact with these people who are freed on probation."  Brown was booked on suspicion of murder.

Judge Rails on Prop. 47 During Sentencing:  During a sentencing hearing for a man with a 20-year criminal history that escalated to a 2013 shooting that nearly killed a police officer, a San Diego judge voiced his strong opposition of Proposition 47, the California measure passed in 2014 reducing several felonies to misdemeanors.  Dana Littlefield of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Superior Court Judge Frederic Link said during Ignacio Canela's sentencing hearing that reduced penalties for drug crimes is "like taking the teeth out of the tiger."  Canela, 33, has a lengthy criminal history including convictions for auto theft, assault, burglary, drug possession for sale and, now, attempted murder.  However, because of Prop. 47, Canela was deemed to be entitled to some of the relief the measure provides and was allowed to have some of his lower felony convictions reclassified, resulting in a 54-year sentence instead of life in prison.  "This defendant is the perfect reason why Prop. 47 does apply and shouldn't be the law," said Link.