California sued over policy that could free serial killers as Laci Peterson's friend sounds alarm
The family and friends of Laci Peterson are among the advocates of California murder victims opposing a new parole board policy that would open a path to recommend resentencing or clemency for serial killers, mass shooters and other convicts serving sentences of life without parole when it goes into effect later this year."We're talking about people that would have been qualified for the death penalty, OK? So they are the worst of the worst," said Anne Marie Schubert, a former Sacramento District Attorney who is now the president and CEO of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation (CJLF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that filed a lawsuit over the new policy."We are talking about cop killers.We're talking about baby killers.
We had a family at our press conference of a six-week-old that was tortured to death by her father over a week-long period of time, all of which, what I understand, was on video — and so you talk about baby killers.We talk about mass shooters, there's a case out of Fresno that happened in the early '90s where a guy killed 10 people and he pled to life without parole.
He would potentially be eligible.""Mass shooters, serial killers, cop killers—it's everything that the public can look at and say these are the worst of the worst that are now potentially eligible."David Hill, sitting left, and attorney Philip Moscone in a California courtroom on April 29, 2004.A court order prevented photographs of the suspect's face from being taken.
Hill was later convicted of killing San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza and shooting his partner.(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)Schubert singled out some high-profile prisoners serving life without parole:Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son after she vanished on Christmas Eve in 2002.
Gang member David Hill fatally shot San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza in 2004 and wounded his partner.Darryl Lamar Collins was 24 when he ...