Posted on 09/02/2009 10:05:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
When Phillip Craig Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1977 for kidnapping a South Lake Tahoe woman so he could rape her in a Reno storage unit, the prosecutor who put him away figured that was one sexual predator who was gone for good.
Under sentencing guidelines now in place, Garrido would have been behind bars for more than two decades - and wouldn't have been free in 1991 when 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched off the street in South Lake Tahoe, not far from where Garrido kidnapped Katie Callaway Hall in 1976.
But under 1970s-era sentencing laws, Garrido was eligible for federal parole after just 10 years - and he was set free in 1988.
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How garrido got out
Garrido lost the appeal and spent his prison time in federal lockups in Leavenworth, Kan., and in Lompoc (Santa Barbara County). Under federal guidelines in place at the time, he was allowed to seek parole within one-third of his sentence or 10 years, whichever was less.
Hall says she figured Garrido would be an old man when he got out. "We had been told his projected release time was 2006," she said on CNN.
Authorities with the U.S. Parole Commission have declined to comment about the circumstances of Garrido's release. However, Gail Powell, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety, said federal authorities at the time told the state that "his progress reports were good. I don't know the specifics, other than he was coming along nicely."
Common treatment
A sentencing expert said Tuesday that in those days, the commission commonly released kidnappers in 10 years or less.
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Was this perhaps during the terrible reign of Rose Bird?
It doesn’t matter. Rose Bird was on the CA State Supreme Court, this case was federal.
Like the rest of the government, you can’t trust the criminal justice system... Especially the courts.
Oops. You’re right.
He’s a truly an inhuman monster. I don’t think he has a single redeeming quality and there is NO punishment too severe for him. On this one, I would flip the switch myself.
This was FEDERAL not STATE. You may blame the Bird Court for many things but this ain’t one of them
Yeah. Already figured that out.
Thanks.
HOWEVER, the panel was appointed by the second worst president of all time ——J. Carter
so you can still thrash around about that one
Oh good.
heheh.
Always glad to help. It is nice to be able to point out the massive failures of the other side
There’s additional detail in this article:
He took some stupid psychological test called the SFS and scored 9 out of a possible 11 points, so they figured he was a low risk and let him go. They let him out despite a 50-year federal sentence and a life sentence in Nevada.
The federal prosecutor was interviewed yesterday on local radio in L.A. and was outraged that they freed him. He said Garrido showed absolutely no remorse in his trial and that “his eyes were dead”. Garrido even blamed the rape victim!
They need to fire all the psychologists. It’s all nonsense. They’re wrapped up in their “theories” and don’t realize the kind of evil they’re dealing with here. People like Garrido are extremely canny and manipulative. They are permanent threats to society and need to be locked up for life.
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