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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 Registration Act. In 2007, Gadlin was sentenced to 35 years to life imprisonment under the state’s “Three Strikes” law.
Non-forcible sex-crimes offenders are eligible for early parole, California Supreme Court rules FacebookTwitterEmail 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
was that. i brought up the word hypocrite. you feel me? asked how he felt about it. i was serious. aiming it directly at him and he knew it. >> he likes to tell me about myself. i really don't care what another person thinks about me. god knows my heart. he knows my intentions. i know where i've come from and where i'm at now. >> yeah. he start calling me all of this crazy stuff, a few words i didn't know. look it up? i'm like, damn. you feel me? >> gadlin says he then used the dictionary to find a word to express his opinion of wallace. >> i looked up a couple words. i was like -- unaware. and i read to him, out the dictionary. what i read to him, the source part of it. uninformed, oblivious, ignorant. that's where he, i think he lost it. i seen his facial expression. not cognizant. unmindful. unknowing. headless. negligent, careless. insensible, forgettable.
back, until i get back? came out to 352,955 days. man, i'm so much -- i'm a good person. i don't deserve that right there. i don't deserve none of that. not none of that [ bleep ], man. i made [ bleep ] mistakes in decisions and choices i made but they gave me 967 years. hell when baseball players, they make three mistakes, they strike out, they go back to the end of the line. they get to come right back up. another chance. >> gadlin will soon transfer to prison with the knowledge he will never leave. 17 years earlier, jiles wallace had to confront the same reality >> it was like okay. life without possibility of parole. never going to get out. what's the point? what's the point of trying to do good for? it's over with? >> wallace was sentenced to life without parole for murder. he wasn't the trigger man but at age 17 was involved in a robbery in which a victim was shot to death.
>> flush, flush, flush, flush, all over. drains down on the floor, on the tables, everything. >> it takes 30 seconds to cause it and literally six hours to clean it up every time. >> gregory gadlin admits he takes part in what inmates call toilet talk, but says he never floods his cell. either way, all of that seems trivial now that he's been sentenced to 967 years to life for a spree of 16 robberies and prior felonies convictions under california's three strikes law. >> i just -- i just don't feel it's fair. how the hell can one live out that long being incarcerated? how does that seem fair? does that even sound fair? >> as gadlin awaits his transfer to prison he's just gone through another transition. he was placed into a new cell with a new cellmate. jiles wallace. >> yo! >> i got a good cellie. feel like i know him. a little history together. so it's not like i came over here with a straight jackass
because we ain't not nothing to talk ab's you made a decision. ain't got nothing to talk about that. >> when i hear dreads, this is what i go to, just because this is me and i don't -- it's just short for dreadlock. that's all it means. >> no it's not short from dreadlock. when did the word dread derive from. >> talking about the ways used. dread head. >> his dictionary came for another reason. >> responsibility state of being reliable. trustworthiness, reliability. trustingness, depend act, loyalty, faithfulness. >> now wallace hopes the same words will have meaning for gadlin as he awaits his transfer to prison. >> i'm getting the counseling and teaching firsthand. feeling like i don't have to do it myself. i'm getting help, more support. so it's kind of cool. >> if you don't learn anything else from me, learn from my mistakes. that's my thing. even if i never get out, if he learned from my mistakes then it
>> does that sound familiar? >> yep. yeah. it sounds like the exuberance of youth. >> coming up -- marcus swift leaves his mentor behind and gets a new cellmate. >> i knew him from outside life. we'll be able to relate more. and -- >> your breath stinks. >> got their face in the toilet bowl. that says nasty. you don't know what's going to come out of there. >> able to use the pipes to talk to other inmates on different floors. >> hello? >> it's called toilet talk, and nobody does it quite like gregory gadlin. >> the pressure makes it go downs. but why? you haven't noticed me in two years. i was in a coma. well, i still deserve appreciation. who was there for you when you had amnesia? you know i can't remember that. stop this madness. if it's appreciation you want you should both get snapshot from progressive. it rewards good drivers with big discounts on car insurance. it's a miracle. i can walk again.