Posted on 10/13/2022 1:47:59 AM PDT by grundle
A convicted rapist in California whose sentencing judge argued he should "never get out of prison" was arrested in the murder of a Sacramento man just weeks after his release, officials said.
Michael Xavier Bell, 36, was arrested this past Sunday for murdering a 60-year-old Sacramento care facility employee just 73 days after he was released early from a decades-long sentence, according to the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys.
Association President Michele Hanisee called his early release "tragically predictable" and said it resulted in "another senseless murder of an innocent victim."
Bell’s release came amid the state’s effort to rehabilitate juvenile offenders not guilty of homicide back into society under Senate Bill 1391. The legislation passed and was signed by then-Governor Jerry Brown.
Attorney General Rob Bonta and other California state officials "ignored impassioned pleas about how dangerous this legislation was to public safety," Hanisee argued.
"There were no safeguards created within this legislation to protect the public from the most dangerous juvenile offenders such as Bell," the associated president added. "Nor was there any mechanism for addressing the retroactive effect on convicted juveniles, like Bell, who had since become adults and who therefore could not be returned to the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system."
Bell was initially arrested in December 2000 after breaking into a woman’s home and sexually assaulting and raping her at gunpoint
"Bell and an accomplice took turns committing sexual assaults, at times pointing a gun at the victim’s head and at times pointing the gun at the victim’s 8-year-old son, forcing him to watch," Hanisee said.
At the time, Bell was nine days away from his 15th birthday. His age did not stop a state court from trying and convicting him as an adult in 2002 — a decision SB 1391 revisited.
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I’d love to see some massive litigation putting in prison,
the people who let this person out. Start liquidating their
assets to reimburse the family for their loss.
The time has come where we need to prosecute the people involved with freeing these animals
A rape with witnesses, why is he still alive?
Gov. Newsom says “come to California and die”!!!
This should be a crime, on the books and enforced with great diligence.
Even legislators should be held accountable.
That would be a first step in stopping this naive virtue signaling.
All good comments. But don’t forget, you’re all asking for California voters to get on board with it. And California voters have long demonstrated they are a literally insane demographic.
“A rape with witnesses, why is he still alive?”
Because California
Because if you can apply the death penalty the evil /=”*>$^ will have an incentive to kill the victims and no incentive not to.
Humans are like monkeys with money, fancy clothes, and technology. We think we are intelligent, but we are basically just flinging poo while dressed appropriately.
Details of the case from an appeal. The perp never should have been allowed out. And I wonder what’s happened to the accomplice.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1749475.html
[Attorney General Rob Bonta and other California state officials “ignored impassioned pleas about how dangerous this legislation was to public safety,” Hanisee argued.]
Put them (Attorney General Rob Bonta and other California state officials) in a cell with the perp for the rest of their days.
All of those responsible for letting this rapist out of prison should be arrested, tried, and convicted as co-defendants for murder.
He was “written up” for raping a fellow inmate. Are prisoners ever tried for crimes like that, or are prison assaults and rapes just freebies?
By design. Part of The Great Culling.
“He was “written up” for raping a fellow inmate. Are prisoners ever tried for crimes like that, or are prison assaults and rapes just freebies?”
That is a very good question. No... There are no “victims” in prison, everyone is guilty and so it is generally accepted as part of the punishment. All rights have been stripped including the right to be an innocent victim.
is it odd that there are no pictures of Bell....a convicted rapist released out onto the pubic?
nope, none that i could find...
depressing that the first thing I think of when there is no pic of the kid or his parents proclaiming his innocence: is his skin color something to be hidden?
truth
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