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Max Factor heir and convicted rapist Andrew Luster is set to walk free after being granted parole - as victim slams Kamala Harris reform law
UK Daily Mail ^ | 09/18/2024 | Ruth Styles

Posted on 09/18/2024 1:00:01 PM PDT by DFG

The disgraced Max Factor heir who was convicted of 86 counts of drugging and raping unconscious women in 2003 is set to be released early after his crimes were reclassified as 'non-violent' under a 2016 law change masterminded by Kamala Harris, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Andrew Luster, now 60, infamously fled to Mexico during his rape trial – only to be tracked down by Dog the Bounty Hunter and hauled back to the US in chains.

Now one of his victims has bravely come forward in an exclusive interview to talk about her fears at his imminent freedom.

Tonja Balden, 51, who was just 23 when she was drugged and raped by Luster after a night out in Santa Barbara, told DailyMail.com. 'I'm afraid that when he is released he may continue the same crimes. He just turned 60. That's not very old.

'It is so psychopathic to set up this type of thing where you find a woman, drug her, and then she's an unconscious body and to do all of these things to her while you're videotaping it. That is a real sadistic way of thinking that I don't know if that can be fixed.'

Initially handed 124 years in prison, depraved Luster's sentence was revised down to 50 years in 2013 on appeal.

And now the serial rapist will walk free from Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California, in a few months' time after being granted parole in August, having served just half his sentence.

Luster is eligible for parole thanks to Proposition 57 – a criminal law amendment written by Harris during her term as California's Attorney General that gives offenders deemed non-violent automatic parole after serving half their sentence.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: andrewluster; balden; kamala; maxfactor

1 posted on 09/18/2024 1:00:01 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

What is non-violent about rape?????


2 posted on 09/18/2024 1:04:33 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: DFG

86 counts is not exactly a one-off. this creep should have gotten a death sentence.


3 posted on 09/18/2024 1:08:11 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: DFG

black robe bad act, IMHO


4 posted on 09/18/2024 1:10:32 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Imprisoned rapist, Andrew Luster is eligible for parole thanks to Proposition 57 – a criminal law amendment written by Harris during her term as California's Attorney General that gives offenders deemed non-violent automatic parole after serving half their sentence.
5 posted on 09/18/2024 1:26:37 PM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: Liz

How is some physical crime against another, non-violent?


6 posted on 09/18/2024 1:29:50 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DFG

I guess if you drug the victims first there is no need to be violent. Makes sense, in a nonsensical way.


7 posted on 09/18/2024 1:40:47 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ConservativeMind

Somebody got a fat $$$$payoff


8 posted on 09/18/2024 1:43:59 PM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: DFG

I’m sure he learned his lesson. Feminists can rest easy, focus on Yrump.


9 posted on 09/18/2024 2:16:01 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

EXACTLY


10 posted on 09/18/2024 5:00:39 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: monkeyshine

Kamalalogic. When logic just isn’t so.


11 posted on 09/19/2024 3:20:57 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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