
Originally Posted by
lares
i remember hearing of this case when i lived in d.c. how could they possibly give a man like that parole?? so he can murder someone else when he gets out??
This reminds me of a case I just saw on A&E TV where a man raped and AMPUTATED the arms of a 15 years old and only got 14 years in prison! He was released in 7 years! and then he killed again.
Singleton's sordid trail
-- Sept. 29, 1978 -- Lawrence Singleton kidnaps hitchhiker Mary Vincent, 15,
from Berkeley, drives her to rural Stanislaus County, then rapes her and chops off her forearms with a hatchet.
-- Oct. 9, 1978 -- Singleton is arrested in Sparks, Nev.
-- March 29, 1979 -- Singleton is convicted by a San Diego jury of multiple counts and is sentenced to more than 14 years in prison.
-- April 25, 1987 -- Singleton is paroled from California state prison in San Luis Obispo after serving just over half of his sentence. A furor erupts in Contra Costa County after many towns refuse to allow Singleton to settle there. State officials eventually settle him in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison.
-- April 1988 -- Singleton, released from parole, leaves San Quentin, and begins to roam around the East Bay, living part of the time in Richmond.
-- Sept. 14, 1990 -- Singleton, now living in Tampa, Fla., is released from jail after serving 48 days for petty theft.
-- Feb. 19, 1997 -- Roxanne Hayes, a 31-year-old prostitute and mother of three, is stabbed to death in Singleton's Tampa, Fla., home, nine days after Singleton is released from a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide. A sheriff's deputy, knocking on Singleton's door, finds him in blood-spattered shirt, Hayes' bloody corpse lying on the floor nearby.
-- April 14, 1998 -- Singleton is sentenced to die after a Tampa jury convicts him of first-degree murder in Hayes' death.
-- Dec. 28, 2001 -- Singleton, 74, dies of cancer in a Florida prison hospital.
the justice system can be pretty fucked up sometimes. this may sound horrible but I hope he never gets parole...or that something "happens" to him before he's eligible for parole.
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