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“I’m not going to do what Gascón has done with many of these people and just pretend their crime has not happened... but their punishment must be proportional to the crime,” Hochman said, invoking the possibility of diversion programs or court-mandate rehabilitation for those who commit offenses while suffering from drug addiction.

Prosecutors were barred from seeking the death penalty or trying juveniles as adults; a host of misdemeanors were no longer to be prosecuted; and in an attempt to combat prison crowding, he pushed diversion programs and less-punitive sentences.

And its models say that traffic diversion will increase levels of PM10, particulate matter with a diameter of 10 microns or less that harms the hugs and heart and is commonly emitted from vehicles and construction sites.

Among the streets identified for traffic diversion are Harry Bridges Boulevard/Alameda Street, Anaheim Street, Pacific Coast Highway, Sepulveda Boulevard, the 405 and 710 freeways and parts of State Routes 47 and 103.

Meanwhile, Rhiannon Do has agreed to three years of probation and a diversion program, in addition to assisting the feds in their continuing investigation and giving up a million-dollar home in North Tustin that prosecutors allege she knowingly bought with federal funds meant to feed elderly Vietnamese refugees.