OC Prosecutor's Prosecutor, Crime victims, legislators are calling on to block an early release for violent criminals – Orange County Register

By Paul Anderson

Santa Ana – The Prosecutor of the District of Orange County, Todd Spitzer and Victim of Crime, organized a rally on Tuesday, in which the legislature of state legislators were asked to tighten gaps, of which they say that they earn violent criminals an early release from prison.

The topic of the annual rally of the crime victims of the office was “new victimization”, since the victims and their loved ones fear that they would still get a passport from which they thought they would never get out.

The chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, Doug Chaffee, told the meetings outside the offices for prosecutors and Sheriff MEPs that the district “will take place for the victims at every step … even if laws change and challenges”.

Michael Kent, police chief of Irvine, condemned “mistakes in our system” in relation to “current probation and re -evaluation of the laws”.

He said the victims experienced “the painful reality of new victimization. Justice that they had served is considered.”

The legislators of the state have changed the murder laws and eliminated a theory of liability for everyone who is connected to a murder, which are entitled to murder convicts regardless of their participation. Now the prosecutors have to show more direct participation in the implementation of a murder.

Since the legislator made the change retrospectively, many convicts have applied for review and were able to obtain freedom.

“It is a reopening of wounds that you have worked so hard to heal,” said Kent. “You should never have to fight for justice that you already deserve.”

Jacki Chalabian Jernigan, his sister Dr. Jeanine Rose Chalabian on October 10, 1997 was killed by her alienated husband Hatch Baliian, explained how she lost her struggle for the accused behind bars. She noticed that the judge in 1999, when he was convicted of 35 years in prison in 1999, was to be brought behind bars behind bars.

During the Covid 19 pandemic, Baliian turned to his children to leave prison. She said that he had refused probation in recent years because he had not completed some courses and showed no regrets. But instead of waiting for a hearing for probation for three years, he was allowed to try again in a year and a half because he took the courses and was released, she said.

Jernigan appealed for a complete unloading in September to rethink it, but the decision was not lifted, she said. Also, she was unable to get an injunction against him.

“I still don't know where it is,” she said. “With the Internet he can find all of our addresses, but we can't know his. It's terrible. It's wrong.”

“… pre -medited murder is exactly that,” continued Jernigan. “This level of evil should never be published … I pray that this broken system can be improved.”

Susan Montemayor Gutierrez, whose husband David Montemayor was kidnapped and killed by his sister in Buena Park on October 2, 2002, complained of how one of the victim's convicted murderers was released and his sister appeals to have reconsidered her punishment under the new state law.

Three of Montemayor's murderers were sentenced to death and two were sentenced to life imprisonment without probation. Gerardo Lopez 'case was sent to Juvenile Court and he was finally released on the border and was allowed to dismantle himself, she said.

The 68 -year -old Deborah Perna appeals to rethink her conviction.

“David's sister asked the murder,” she said. “She had the complete understanding of what she was doing.”

Montemayor Gutierrez said that a hearing in Orange County will take place in the next few months.

“She will try to play down her role in the murder,” she said. “I don't think she will ever take responsibility for her role in the murder.”

She said she was confident that the petition would be rejected, but added that this could be “naive”.

The mother of an 8-year-old boy, who was sexually attacked by Matthew Zakrzewski, 36, who was sentenced to 707 years in November 2023 because he was bothering 16 boys and suspended a 17th pornography, criticized a conclusions that the early release that the 50-year-old has achieved and that the 50-year-old has reached a 20-year-old pile and a prison of 20 years.

According to the State Department of Corrections, Zakrzewski claimed a probation in May 2039. If a probation is granted to him, the public prosecutor would probably try to commit him to a state hospital for mental health as a sexually violent predator.

Spitzer praised the boy's mother, who made an appointment with the prosecutor Robert Mestman in order to close the legislators the gap. Spitzer was impressed, the proposal rose from a committee for public security. The district's top prosecutor said that he was “openly blown away” by the certificates of victims of crime on Tuesday.

Spitzer said he was encouraged by the pass. 36 pass.

“It is up to us,” he said. “We have the strength, the ability, the swing.”