Broderick Favoritism?

The San Diego district attorney’s office has done irreparable harm to the equal rights movement by not prosecuting Elisabeth Broderick for capital homicide and making that decision on the basis of her sex. Either she is guilty of capital murder or not, and our Constitution, enacted laws and case law very specifically provide the circumstances under which capital homicide lies. That decision is meant to be made by a jury after a trial.

For the district attorney’s office to make the decision precipitously because they did not “want to deprive her children of their mother” flies in the face of equal treatment under the law. After all, who was it who deprived her children of their father? Is that not a weighty crime? Responsibility for one’s self and one’s own actions are the keystone of equality. There are no rights that do not also carry responsibilities. There can be no equality where any segment of the population is given preferential treatment.

JERRY GHIGLIOTTI

San Diego