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Not even California voters agree with Newsom’s lenient sentencing policies for repeat criminals — as shown by the landslide approval of Proposition 36.

In other cases where Gascón has won a conviction or secured a plea deal, sentences have been arguably lenient.

The trial became a media circus, as did her stint at a prison in West Virginia nicknamed “Camp Cupcake” because of its supposedly lenient conditions.

Mr Lipson had unsuccessfully lobbied the judge to hand down a more lenient sentence, arguing that DePape suffered from mental health issues and isolation, which he said made him vulnerable to propaganda.

The CPS and Leila’s private barrister appealed the sentence as being unduly lenient.