{"id":2744,"date":"2020-04-03T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:48:28","slug":"governor-newsom-commutes-the-sentences-of-14-murderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom Commutes the Sentences of 14 Murderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Nicholas Vetrisek<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governor Gavin Newsom recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/crime\/article\/California-governor-commutes-sentences-including-15162968.php\">decided<\/a> to commute 21 prison sentences as well as pardon five people. Shockingly, 14 of the people whose sentences were commuted were convicted for murder or related charges, with two of them involving children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the prisoners was Joann Parks of Los Angeles County, a woman who set fire to her home, killing three of her children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another prisoner who had his sentence commuted was Rodney McNeal of San Bernardino County, who stabbed his pregnant wife to death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet another was Suzanne Johnson of San Diego County, who assaulted a child, resulting in her death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to these three:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kristopher Blehm of Santa Barbara County, who has served less than 12 years for helping murder his crime partner\u2019s romantic rival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steven Bradley of Kern County, who killed a gas station attendant during a robbery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jason Bryant of Shasta County, who committed several armed robberies in which one victim was fatally shot by an accomplice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosemary Dyer of Los Angeles County, who fatally shot her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuel Eldredge of Humboldt County, who fatally shot his crime partner\u2019s housemate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Flowers of Tulare County, who killed a woman during a robbery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Glass of Los Angeles County, who committed murder during a burglary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Harris of Los Angeles County, who engaged in a drug sales-related kidnapping and murdered two people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Jassy of Los Angeles County, who has served 11 years for killing a man during an altercation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shyrl Lamar of Sacramento County, who participated in a robbery in which her crime partner fatally stabbed two victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ramon Rodriguez of Los Angeles County, who was paid to commit murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the 14 violent criminals that Newsom believes are suitable to return to society.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mayors or governors threatening jail time for violations of stay-at-home orders while they let criminals out of jail because of Wuhan coronavirus is a&#8230;joke<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatiePavlich\/status\/1244982214703661059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While reports have been mixed regarding whether the coronavirus outbreak was the reason for the action, it appears that the\u00a0clemency requests were being considered before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are going to start releasing prisoners or commuting their sentences, shouldn\u2019t they be the ones that pose the least threat to society? Criminal justice reform advocates preach endlessly about the thousands of non-violent drug offenders that populate our prisons. Shouldn\u2019t they be let out instead, if this is the route we&#8217;re going to go?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governor Newsom certainly doesn\u2019t think so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ecopoly\/3294740902\/in\/photolist-629pFC-8YWn8T-3cMVWe-5GDxvk-8KST1F-6GAQp-6GAHV-6GAX7-5xPwwi-6GAT8-7jmJn4-69XXRU-5tkfst-4epmie-5QBMGf-a8e7ce-e1phNB-b9fKVz-adik5J-adik2E-e76bqs-2bDVFM-8sKrq3-8QuhAF-8BvNLe-bnFnbH-5xPEJe-68ZGXG-bjTTqg-93ZVAa-bsAfux-5ngRvS-6i41Dj-YfoiF-Dacre-98myAF-7UVXk-WDFNx-8Bwyeg-dVcCdH-dhkk2h-dVcC5r-dVcFan-8Se2xE-dVifk7-dVibv9-6hG2VR-dVcA2k-bDXcrT-8Sb78p\">Photo by Timothy Hurst via Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Nicholas Vetrisek Governor Gavin Newsom recently decided to commute 21 prison sentences as well as pardon five people. Shockingly, 14 of the people whose sentences were commuted were convicted for murder or related charges, with two of them involving children.\u00a0 One of the prisoners was Joann Parks of Los Angeles County, a woman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Governor Newsom Commutes the Sentences of 14 Murderers - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2744\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governor Newsom Commutes the Sentences of 14 Murderers - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by Nicholas Vetrisek Governor Gavin Newsom recently decided to commute 21 prison sentences as well as pardon five people. 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