(KMJ) – Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims phoned into KMJ’s Broeske & Musson Show Friday morning to voice her frustration over the release of Neko Wilson.
He spent the last nine years behind bars awaiting trial for his role in the 2009 double homicide of a couple in Kerman. But, thanks to a revision in state law signed in September by Governor Jerry Brown, Wilson walked out of the Fresno County Jail Thursday Night.
You can hear Sheriff’s Mims’ comments in this story by KMJ’s Matt Otstot.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California will reconsider life sentences for up to 4,000 nonviolent third-strike criminals by allowing them to seek parole under a ballot measure approved by voters two years ago.
That’s according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration won’t appeal a court ruling that the state is illegally excluding the nonviolent career criminals from parole under a 2016 ballot measure aimed at reducing the prison population and encouraging rehabilitation.
Defense attorneys say third-strikers are disproportionately black and mentally ill.
It’s the second such loss for Brown, who leaves office in January. Another judge previously ruled that California must consider earlier parole for potentially thousands of sex offenders. The administration is fighting that ruling.
