Longtime victims' advocate Marcey Rinker grew increasingly frustrated with how the justice system was changing, as homicides continued to mount.
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Rinker — who had grown used to inmates serving at least 85 percent of their sentences before becoming eligible for parole — realized the system that she trusted to provide justice for victims of violent crime had changed. So in December, just shy of her 69th birthday, she retired. The move, part of the city’s justice reform initiative, allows inmates who committed crimes during their youth to show that they have matured and are no longer a threat to society.
“The amount of personal pain she has to hear about, hearing the personal loss that a family member or individual has been dealing with, is worse than what any other lawyer is going to hear.” One of Rinker’s most challenging cases was in 2010 following a series of slayings that culminated in one of the deadliest shootings in the nation’s capital, known as theNine people were shot, and three died, when a packed minivan of gunmen armed with an AK-47-style rifle drove down the Southeast Washington street, shooting at a group of people gathered on a sidewalk after the funeral of their friend, 20-year-old friend Jordan Howe.
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