California Supreme Court Rules Nonviolent Sex Offenders Eligible for Early Parole
The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that a 2016 ballot proposition approved by state voters makes sex offenders convicted of nonviolent crimes eligible for early parole consideration even though its proponents, including the previous governor, say it was never their intention to free sex offenders.
The ruling came Dec. 28 in a prisoner’s habeas corpus application cited as In Re Gregory Gadlin. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. Six other justices concurred in the decision.
The court’s opinion relates that in 2007, a jury convicted the petitioner, Gregory Gadlin, of assault with a deadly weapon, upholding allegations that he had previously been convicted of two serious felonies, specifically, a 1984 conviction for forcible rape, and a 1986 conviction for forcible child molestation. Both convictions required registration under the Sex Offender Registr
Non-forcible sex-crimes offenders are eligible for early parole, California Supreme Court rules
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An inmate is led out of his cell at San Quentin State Prison on Aug. 16, 2016. The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that a voter-approved initiative that allowed early parole consideration for prisoners convicted of nonviolent felonies applies to thousands of inmates serving time for nonforcible sex crimes such as pimping and possessing child pornography.Eric Risberg / Associated Press
A voter-approved initiative that allowed early parole consideration for prisoners convicted of nonviolent felonies applies to thousands of inmates serving time for non-forcible sex crimes such as pimping and possessing child pornography, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
you feel me? just talking like that. hello? hello? hey. what s up. who am i speaking to. this g. who is this? this is daily rundown. what s up? gadlin says talking to women even through the plumbing helps keep his mind off his upcoming sentencing. huh? convicted of 16 counts of robbery, he faces a minimum of 25 years to life. under california s three strikes law. i think three strikes law is fair? no. hell no, it s not fair, man. i m a good person. it s not like i m just a real [ bleep ] person, but at the same time i got a real, real positive attitude about it. because it s not over. like i say some say it s too late to change. about to do life. i look at this, it s really not. not too late to change and it s not over. jiles assumed his fate was over when brought to this jail at age 17.
unconcerned. blind. deaf. inattentive, without notice. you re not supposed to go through a dictionary trying to belittle people. fools do that kind of stuff. so i said, can you not call me that word, fool? you feel me? call me that again, they ll be problems. i ll call you what i want. from there it just i will to stop talking. if i d have said more, it would have escalated it. i guess he felt i was stresses him out. i m going through, [ bleep ], i m going to try to kill you, period. you lock two people in a room like this and especially when you lock them down and don t allow them out for showers and phone calls, what happens is, they start taking out their frustrations on each other. so before i subject myself to that, any further a bam. i just take myself out of the situation. gadlin will soon transfer to
initially, if that s what he chose, which i know he wants to get to work right away. my family, my immediate family, my extended family all will embrace him. for the most part, i think the initial adjustment is going to be more the technology side of things. that s it. internet, cell phones. starbucks. i can teach you about walmart. i can teach you about starbucks really quickly. in a matter of days you ll have it down. all right. i love you. i love you, too. thanks for coming to see me. i don t want to say good-bye. you don t have the a choice. all right, baby. give me some sugar. all right. i ll talk to you later. all right. okay. bye. coming up gadlin pressed the emergency button inside of his cell and when they went to handcuff him and pull him out he said, you