{"id":7266,"date":"2022-08-10T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:59:50","slug":"brutal-ca-murderer-got-early-prison-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=7266","title":{"rendered":"Brutal CA Murderer Got Early Prison Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The District Attorneys of Placer and Amador Counties told reporters Monday that a Sacramento man arrested for the July murder and dismemberment of an elderly North Highlands woman, gained early release from state prison after serving less than half of his sentence for previous crimes.\u00a0 Rosalio Ahumada of the Sacramento Bee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/suspect-in-california-woman-s-dismemberment-did-not-serve-full-prison-term-placer-da-says\/ar-AA10scDI\">reports<\/a> that habitual felon Darnell Erby is facing charges of aggravated murder and burglary for killing 77-year-old Pamela Garrett May, whose dismembered body was found in her home on July 19.\u00a0 Over the past 20 years Erby had been convicted of 8 different crimes,\u00a0 arrested 20 times, and had been unable to go more than two years without committing a serious felony.\u00a0 Under California&#8217;s progressive sentencing reforms Erby actually became eligible for parole in 2018, a year after he was sentenced to 12 years for felony convictions in Placer and Amador County.\u00a0 He was denied parole twice for criminal activity while in prison, but was granted parole in April of 2021.\u00a0 Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s Public Safety Realignment (AB 209) passed in 2011, and his George Soros-bankrolled Proposition 57, The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act, passed in 2016, made this murderer&#8217;s release possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District Attorneys of Placer and Amador Counties told reporters Monday that a Sacramento man arrested for the July murder and dismemberment of an elderly North Highlands woman, gained early release from state prison after serving less than half of his sentence for previous crimes.\u00a0 Rosalio Ahumada of the Sacramento Bee reports that habitual felon Darnell Erby is facing charges of aggravated murder and burglary for killing 77-year-old Pamela Garrett May, whose dismembered body was found in her home on July 19.\u00a0 Over the past 20 years Erby had been convicted of 8 different crimes,\u00a0 arrested 20 times, and had been unable to go more than two years without committing a serious felony.\u00a0 Under California&#8217;s progressive sentencing reforms Erby actually became eligible for parole in 2018, a year after he was sentenced to 12 years for felony convictions in Placer and Amador County.\u00a0 He was denied parole twice for criminal activity while in prison, but was granted parole in April of 2021.\u00a0 Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s Public Safety Realignment (AB 209) passed in 2011, and his George Soros-bankrolled Proposition 57, The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act, passed in 2016, made this murderer&#8217;s release possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,40,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-policy","category-sentencing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brutal CA Murderer Got Early Prison Release - Crime &amp; 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