Posted on 03/14/2026 8:00:12 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A 22-year-old convicted murderer was arrested after he cut off his GPS monitoring device while attending classes at an Orange County community college, authorities said.
Jose Angel Aguilar, 22, was serving time at a juvenile facility for a murder he committed in 2021 when he was 17, according to the Orange County Probation Department.
On Feb. 2, the juvenile court granted Aguilar a weekly release to attend classes at Santiago Canyon College.
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Yeah he committed a murder but it was a peaceful murder
Next time just cut off his foot.
OR HEAD
Convicted murderer allowed to go to a public university with no constraints other than an ankle monitor. What’s wrong with this picture?
In what universe can a convicted murderer be out of jail at the age of 22? Did he finish his 40 year sentence?
Try both feet. With a bandsaw.
In what universe can a convicted murderer be out of jail at the age of 22?
Each state’s laws on what passes for juvenile justice differ. A half century ago, I worked as a teacher in a juvenile prison. In Missouri at the time, juveniles were not prosecuted for specific crimes, but being ‘delinquent’. One of my students and his brother murdered his step-father and left their step-mother for dead after beating her.
In spite of the long-held legal principal that murderers cannot profit from their crime, he and his brother got 2/3rds of his step-father’s life insurance, since technically they were never convicted of murder, but rather delinquency. I actually saw the check before it was deposited into his canteen account. On his 18th birthday, he was released with a clean record.
Execution is the only solution for convicted murderers to protect society.
I don’t think I would feel too comfortable sitting in class next to a guy with prison tattoos and an ankle monitor.
Wow, speechless here.
Santiago Canyon College is not a university.
The legal system isn’t about punishment anymore.
It’s all about rehabilitation, especially if social factors come into play for the criminal to have committed the crime because of the injustice his race or sexual leanings.
The only way this is going to stop is if these social justice leftists are removed from the punitive phase of the system, and we all know in places like California the chances of that happening are the same as me sitting down to a cup of coffee with a Sasquatch.
Why wasn’t he tried as an adult?
Due to his race and social status it wasn’t his fault, it was ours for letting him think that murder was his only option.
He should be given another couple of chances to realize that his decisions were caused by his social suppression and racism shown to him growing up.
If he was born to a white middle classed family this never would have happened, so it can’t be his fault now can it - it has to be everyone’s that forced him to be this way and make him choose these accidental mistakes.
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Shame. You can try older teens as adults so as not to let them escape justice by the juvenile systems loopholes. Should have happened in the case you described.
Murderer in college with an ankle bracelet and Tina Peters dying in a prison cell in Colorado. 🤔
Misprint- 40 hour sentence!
22 Years old, convicted murderer on the street, going to college??? WTF have we come to, this is insanity run amok.
You can try older teens as adults
Another case that ended up being local to me; remember when some junior high kids in Arkansas ambushed their classmates and teachers when they pulled a fire alarm and started shooting them as they gathered outside maybe 20 years ago? They killed several—teachers and kids.
They could only be charged as juveniles and by law had to be released on their 18th or 21st birthdays. The state provided them with new identities and of course clean records.
One of them moved to a few miles of me. He had applied for a concealed gun carry permit. In what must have been a violation of the law, the local sheriff knew that he was one of the murderers and denied him. He was killed in a car accident, which is how his background and crime was revealed.
I think when it comes to murder, age shouldn’t make a difference. Also sex of the murderer shouldn’t matter either but it crpurrently does and that needs extreme correcting. Someone has unlawfully ended another persons life and it shouldn’t be diminished and justice shouldn’t be denied because of the age of the murderer.
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