CA Law Allows Early Release of Racist Freeway Shooter

California’s Board of Parole Hearings (CBPH) has ordered the parole of a Sacramento man convicted of attempting to murder eight people after serving 14 years of a 90-year prison sentence.  The Sacramento District Attorneys office reports that in August and September of 2009, 24-year-old Kyle Frank targeted cars with black or Hispanic drivers to shoot at from his car on the Interstate 80 freeway.  He was convicted of eight counts of attempted murder for shooting into four cars, often yelling racial slurs before firing. In each incident Frank fired at least four shots into the victim’s cars, often after blocking their attempts to exit the freeway to escape. While only one victim was actually wounded,  it was clear from the evidence that he was attempting to kill the drivers and passengers. One of the cars was driven by a Hispanic mother with her two minor children.

After Frank was convicted in 2011, he joined a white-supremacist prison gang and assaulted two inmates in separate incidents. Despite his violent behavior while in prison and his 90-year-sentence, Frank qualified for early release under California’s 2017 youthful offender parole law (AB 1308). That law, introduced by Santa Cruz Democrat Mark Stone, authorized the CBPH to parole violent offenders who were under age 26 at the time of the crime, after they serve the first 15 years of their sentences. Because Frank was 24 when he shot up those four cars, he qualified.  But his parole eligibility was also shortened by California’s Proposition 57, Governor Jerry Brown’s “The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016,” which allowed Frank to earn about a year’s worth of good behavior (good time) credits while he was part of a prison gang attacking other inmates.

According to the California Board of Parole Hearings manual, under current state law:

“A hearing panel must grant parole at a parole hearing, unless it determines the incarcerated person currently poses an unreasonable risk of danger to society if released from prison.”  (emphasis added)

Last April, when the CBPH announced its decision to parole Frank, Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho petitioned for a rehearing. The Board did so earlier this month and affirmed its initial decision to release Frank back into the community.  One wonders what would qualify an inmate as an “unreasonable risk of danger to society.”

Thanks to California’s one-party legislature, Governor and Attorney General, the law no longer protects the public from even the most violent criminals. The democrat party is the primary political advocate for criminals. It’s the only party passing laws to shorten or eliminate sentences, legalize dangerous drugs, allow convicted criminals and illegal aliens to vote, appoint pro-criminal judges, and tie the hands of police officers while labeling them as racists.

Back in 2011, when Jerry Brown kicked off the state’s criminal justice reform movement by ramming through AB 109, a sweeping measure that made most criminals ineligible for state prison sentences, a former large county district attorney told me that the public would only demand change when blood was running on the streets. It looks like we might be there.