Board of Prison Terms Is Just Doing Time
Re “State High Court Endorses Davis’ Denials of Parole,” Dec. 17: What a terrible decision by the California Supreme Court. Why let the courts and juries hear evidence if their sentences of second-degree murder can be changed, in effect, to first-degree murder without the benefit of parole by the governor without his hearing testimony firsthand?
Furthermore, why pay the state Board of Prison Terms commissioners over $90,000 a year if their recommendations are almost always reversed by the governor? With our huge budget deficit, it makes no sense to keep deserving prisoners in prison for life at a big cost to the taxpayers while severe cuts are made in education and health care. Hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually rule fairly on this very bad decision.
W. Earl Haberlin
La Canada
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