Posted on 08/14/2024 5:29:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
A bill that would give people serving life without parole a second chance at freedom was brought back in the California Assembly Monday after a year of inactivity.
Senate Bill 94, authored by State Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose), calls for a second look at Californians serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The bill would allow people convicted of life sentences a chance to lessen their time behind bars if they have been imprisoned since June 1990, or for 25 years. Cortese says this is a chance for those convicted so long ago to have a second chance at life.
"They can only get released as a consequence of the bill. If they petition, they get a hearing, they succeed at the hearing, they then get a court hearing, parole board hearing and the governor's signature on top of all that. The bill won't automatically release and it's a misnomer that's out there," said Cortese.
It would not apply to those who were convicted of killing law enforcement officials or people who have killed three or more people. Republican lawmakers believe it will only make our communities more dangerous.
"I have absolutely no sympathy at all for these people. Just the fact that they've spent 25 years in prison, they should spend the rest of their life in prison. These are the worst criminals and they should not be let out early," said Asm. Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin).
Crime Victims United, an Auburn-based organization, also opposes this bill, saying it will continue to fight it from ever becoming law.
Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) requested it be removed from the inactive list.
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Satan’s agenda is to kill, steal, and destroy and the democrats are happily going along with it.
CA logic...
Not shocking...
25 years is a long time. I’m mildly ok with this. It’s not like they got a wrist slap.
Unfortunately, their victims won’t get a second chance.
In other words, one has to commit a triple murder to stay in prison.
IIRC-—THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS WERE RELEASED FROM PRISONS BECAUSE OF COVID——
DID THEY GET ROUNDED UP & REINSTALLED INTO THOSE PRISONS???
NO INFO.
This is why convicted murderers must be executed.
Great...let’s hope they move into a home on your street....
Its reversal of imeperfect justice. The murderers should have been executed in the first place.
“Early” release, LOL.
I guess that means earlier than death.
Many of these killers will be in their 40s when released.
I thought ‘life without parole’ implicitly meant ‘never released from prison.’ ... Apparently in California that is not true.
The El Salvador prison system is the best model for today’s society. Their crime rate has fallen to incredible levels.
Oh please no. NO!!!
Leftists are scum. Pure scum.
I wonder if they will release the remaining Manson “family” members now?
I suggest Freakafonia just let them all out. Maybe give each 100 million dollars.
People are not sentenced, especially in CA to “life without possibility of parole” for “mildly OK” crimes. You cannot be serious. Notice the article does not describe the crimes people have been convicted and sentenced in this manner.
Child murderers, serial killers (who may have had a death sentence communted to Life w/o parole), sexual deviant murderers. Consider the crime to do the time, and if not do the time— to be removed from this world. Never getting out in either case. This is a sentence to punish the individual and obtain some form of justice for the families.
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