San Francisco Asian community leaders and top law officials are demanding justice for an elderly victim and for her violent offender to be kept behind bars.
On Friday, the case was put on hold until next month.Protesters demonstrated on the front steps outside San Francisco Superior Court calling for justice for 97-year-old Anh "Peng" Taylor. She was stabbed multiple times in 2021.Last week, Daniel Cauich was sentenced to probation for the attack.Judge Kay Tsenin was set to finalize that decision Friday but instead deferred the final steps to next month.
Cauich's defense attorney, Lisa DewBerry, said that her client was the victim of a hit-and-run himself that contributed to a severe mental health crisis that came to a head when he stabbed Taylor.The defense attorney said Judge Tsenin sentenced him appropriately and set terms for Cauich to receive mental health care. She said if he failed to live up to the strict demands tied to his probation, a 10-year prison sentence would be re-instated.
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