Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to pretend he is willing to be tough on crime, but California under his leadership is effectively eliminating life without parole as a criminal punishment, facilitating the release of despicable violent criminals as soon as they turn 50 years old.
Roy Charles Waller, known as the NorCal rapist, is on the path to being free under California’s new soft-on-crime sentencing laws. Waller went on a 15-year raping spree throughout Northern California, breaking into women’s homes across six different counties. In 2020, he was sentenced to 897 years to life, meaning he would be eligible for parole in the year 2917, when he would be 957 years old.
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But California Democrats believe that people should spend as little time behind bars as possible, no matter how heinous their crimes, and so Waller is eligible for “elder parole.” The requirements for elder parole state that you can be released, even if your sentence was for life without parole, so long as you have served 20 years of that sentence and are over the age of 50. Waller was arrested at age 58 with a backpack full of equipment to perpetrate another home invasion rape. As the man who prosecuted Orr said, “There’s some irony in the fact that if you’re a victim of elder abuse, you have to be age 65. But if you’re somebody who commits nine different rapes over 15 years, you only have to be age 50 to be considered elderly.”
This means that Waller will be eligible for release around the year 2040, meaning he would have only served 20 years behind bars for raping nine women.
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This attitude extends to the two worst crimes someone can commit. You can see it here when it comes to rape, and you can see it with moves by Democrats in the legislature to let murderers go free as well. California Democrats nearly passed a bill in 2023 and 2024 that would invalidate death sentences or sentences of life without parole for murderers who “killed multiple victims or killed in concert with a rape, robbery, kidnapping or torture,” giving them a chance at parole after just 20 years. California is also trying to invalidate life sentences for criminals who commit a crime before they turn 25, meaning that a 24-year-old murderer, for example, would only have to serve 25 years behind bars before being eligible for parole.
California is continuing to weaken the upper end of the justice system, scheming up ways to get the most despicable criminals released sooner and sooner from their incarceration. California is lessening the consequences for the most serious crimes someone can commit and calling it “justice,” because California’s only goal is to make sure as few people serve as little time in jail as possible, even if they deserve to be locked up for life.