More of that wonderful “progressiveness” is on display in California thanks to Gavin Newsom. On Friday, Newsom commuted the sentences of 21 prison inmates. Most of them were either convicted of murder or attempted murder. One of Newsom’s excuses for commuting the sentence of murders is because of their ‘youth”. Yet one of the women commuted was an 80-year-old woman, Doris Roldan, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence from Los Angeles County for working with two accomplices to kill her husband when she was 42 years old. Yea, that’s some youth there. I wonder if Newsom would have commuted the sentences of Charlie Manson and Richard Ramirez too if they were still alive. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did after this shit show. If you are a criminal, it pays to be jailed in California.
| Gavin Newsom commuted prison sentences of convicted murders and attempted murderers |
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Newsom’s predecessor, Jerry Brown, had criticized the numerous sentencing enhancements allowed under California law, many adopted as get-tough policies in the 1980s and 1990s. State lawmakers on Friday were on the verge of sending him a bill ending a mandatory one-year enhancement for repeat nonviolent felonies, though Newsom has not said if he will sign it.
The governor commuted the sentence of an 80-year-old woman, Doris Roldan, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence from Los Angeles County for working with two accomplices to kill her husband when she was 42 years old.
But he cited the youth of 16 offenders, several of whom were teenagers and one of whom was convicted as a minor.
Newsom’s office pointed to studies that the part of the brain responsible for impulse control does not mature until well into adulthood, along with offenders’ capacity for remorse and rehabilitation. He noted that the state and federal courts and California lawmakers have all found that youthful offenders must have a meaningful opportunity for parole.