Let’s put this in language Gavin Newsom can understand: Setting murderers free doesn’t work out well for presidential candidates.
That advice seems urgent in the wake of Newsom’s failure to stop the parole release of Alberto Tamez Jr., 75, who was convicted for the 1974 rape and murder of Genevieve Moreno.
Moreno was a 56-year-old wife and mother whose husband had expected to pick her up after work, as usual, the night she went missing.
Her body was found in a field the next day, brutalized and abandoned.
Tamez lateradmittedto beating and robbing her. He pleaded no contest to the murder charge.
San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dowtold The California Postthat he had tried his hardest to convince the parole board not to set Tamez free.
They didn’t listen, and the governor did nothing to intervene.
One would think Newsom had learned his lesson from other parole controversies earlier this year, such as the case of aconvicted kidnapper and child molesterwho would have been set free had the Placer County DA not arrested him on fresh charges.
Newsom had claimed he was powerless in that case. But he certainly has reversed controversial paroles in the recent past.
Four years ago,Newsom reversed parolefor Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy Sr. in a hotel ballroom in California in 1968.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
