Monterey County jury convicts Michael Ellison for multiple murder charges; Monterey County DA’s office

KION ^ | November 18, 2024 | Jeanette Bent

[artichokegrower]

SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV) -- The Monterey County DA's office announced Monday that 42-year-old Michael Ellison of Riverside was convicted of First-Degree Murder, FirstDegree Attempted Murder of a Peace Officer and First-Degree Attempted Murder for an incarcerated crime in 2018.

[artichokegrower]

According to the DA's office, Ellison was also convicted of three counts of Assault by Life Prisoner. They say that on April 8, 2018, Ellison stabbed a fellow prisoner Jason Lewis to death in the prison yard at Salinas Valley State Prison.

The DA's office also says that on July 26, 2019, Ellison stabbed a Correctional Officer multiple times while he was housed in administrative segregation at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad.

Then, on August 12, 2023, the DA's office says that Ellison stabbed his cellmate at Salinas Valley State Prison.

Ellison has a prior conviction for a Riverside County murder in 2004, Assault by a Prisoner with a Deadly Weapon from Kings County in 2005, and Assault with a Deadly Weapon causing Great Bodily Injury from Kern County in 2017, according to the DA's office.

So they are going to give this guy serving a life sentence another life sentence. Hey Newsom how’s that getting rid of the death penalty in California working out?

[Enterprise]

As long as he votes Democrat it’s all good.

[ClearCase_guy]

Liberals don’t like the death penalty because — hey, what if an innocent person ends up dying???

But they go pretty silent when a case like this pops up. No death penalty. And THEREFORE innocent people die. [shrug] Liberals don’t care.

[nickcarraway]

You think Newsom cares about this?

[nickcarraway]

Liberals don’t like the death penalty because — hey, what if an innocent person ends up dying???

I don't think that's the reason they oppose the death penalty - it's just a point they get the pubic on board. I think they sympathize with most the criminals.

[nickcarraway]

And THEREFORE innocent people die. [shrug] Liberals don’t care.

Well, it depends what you mean by innocent. Teo of the people he murdered were in prison, although I don't know what for.

So, Newsom et al didn't take away the death penalty, the just transferred it from Ellison to the two prisoners and the corrections officer. I don't know what those two prisoners did, but I am guessing they deserved the death penalty less than Ellison. Please inform me if you know what they were imprisoned for.

[nickcarraway]

I am going to go out on a limb and say Michael Ellison is not what we would call a good person.

Given that, he must know by now that he has killed three people, and apparently he is no worse off for it, than he was before. So, for a person with a criminal pathology, he could realize he has a certain power. He can kill as many people as he wants, with no punishment. [If I remember correctly, California no longer has solitary confinement?]

Beyond that, a corrections officer could use him to execute a prisoner he wanted to. Either because the officer believes he deserves it, or maybe he has a criminal enterprise, and it helps to get rid of that person.

[Leaning Right]

Interestingly enough, California still has the death penalty. But like in so many other states, California’s governor refuses to allow it to be applied.

The death penalty is inhumane, they say. But locking someone away in a cell for 30 years or more isn’t? It would seem to me that both options have their place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_California

[nickcarraway]

While researching Michael Ellison, I found he and another inmate killed a fellow inmate who was 19 in 2022. That wasn't either of these murders:

Riverside County Murderer Kills Teen Prison Inmate: CDCR

Also, the Jason Ellison he murdered was convicted of first degree murder. He had life with the possibility of parole, before Ellison gave hhe death penalty. [UPDATE: CDCR names inmate killed at Salinas Valley prison ]

So, since he killed the homeless guy, he has executed more prisoners than the state of California. (And assaulted even more.)

[hanamizu]

“...three counts of Assault by Life Prisoner.”

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It might just be me, but the fact that California has such a crime on the books, tells me that it is not all that uncommon, and that the death penalty should still be an option.

[nickcarraway]

Those stats should be available.

[nickcarraway]

For some reason, that reminds me of Jan Holmstrom. When he was 24, he shot his dr. father in his drive way, handed the shotgun to a 9-year-old Cub Scout and walked away.

He did go to prison, which is the part that reminded me of him. In 1984, he set Charles Manson on fire in prison. I'm not sure why.

He was paroled in 1990. He was a Har Krishna since 1971, and attended a Hari Krishna temple in an upscale SF neighborhood. Then in 1994 he stabbed and almost killed one of the members in the temple. A Vietnam vet member saved the man. He had also stabbed a member in another Hari Krishna temple in 1973, but was acquitted.

He was declared insane, and was going to be institutionalized for a maximum of 25 years. I can't find out where he is today.

[Seruzawa]

It’s a professional courtesy, one criminal to the next.

[Glad2bnuts]

Sentenced to home detention, with credit for time served... Cali cartel owns the cops

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I recall reading that every execution prevents seven murders. The death penalty has a deterrent effect. It is impossible to ever be 100% ontologically certain of anyone’s guilt, but in most cases there is really ever little doubt. The so-called innocence project mostly clogs up the courts with pettifogging and technicalities. When a conviction is reversed (rarely) they claim the defendant was “innocent”.

Even cases where an innocent person is convicted, it is because of the laxity of the punishment that courts and juries take a lax attitude towards conviction. When it is a matter of life and death, juries are more selective.

[martin_fierro]

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You see this is where the people who say "Just lock them up" thinking that will solve the problems and I part ways. Because unlike what happens in their papermache world, this is reality.

Killers kill.

[ronnie raygun]

Liberals don’t care. as long as thier family and loved ones are not the victims