Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting blasted by San Luis Obispo County prosecutors after he declined to intervene in the parole of a convicted murderer, a decision that cleared the way for a man who served more than 50 years for a brutal 1974 killing to be released from prison.
District Attorney Dan Dow is sharply criticizing both the parole decision and the governor’s refusal to act, saying the outcome represents a failure of California’s criminal justice system and a devastating denial of justice for the victim.
Alberto Tamezwas convicted of kidnapping, raping and stranglingGenevieve Adaline Moreno in Nipomo in 1974.
“I am deeply troubled that our criminal and victim justice system has reached a result where the man who brutally murdered Genevieve Moreno over 50 years ago will now walk free,” Dow said.
Prosecutors say the attack began outside the bar where she worked and ended nearby where her body was later discovered.
Moreno was attacked during the late-night hours of June 17 into the early morning hours of June 18, 1974.
Her body was found later that morning in a grove of eucalyptus trees roughly a quarter mile from the bar.
San Luis Obispo County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Kirschner determined Moreno died from “homicidal strangulation.”
She also suffered multiple bruises, abrasions and cuts to her face, forearms, abdomen and thighs during the attack.
Investigators identified Tamez the same morning of the murder after he was found with bloodstains on his shirt and hands, along with foxtails and other debris linked to the crime scene.
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