Quote:For the third time, a convicted killer has been denied parole, 37 years after he kidnapped two University of New Mexico students, raping and killing one of them and nearly killing the other.

But why Michael Anthony Guzman has any chance of parole still outrages and re-traumatizes family and friends of his victims – including the one who lived.

“I did not ask for this,” Colene Bush said Friday in a phone call, her voice steeped in disgust. “I did not ask to go to war. I was forced to be at war, and I was left to die and my friend did die. What he did to her was horrid.”

What he did to Bush was horrid, too.

Guzman’s night of savagery happened in April 1981, so you would be forgiven if his name or his crime isn’t familiar. He was an 18-year-old dishwasher when he abducted Bush, 20, and Julie Jackson, 19, at knifepoint near the Frontier restaurant, where the two friends had been studying and talking over cinnamon rolls and coffee.

He forced the women into the back seat of a car rigged with no door handles and no escape and drove them to a dark and steep arroyo in Tijeras Canyon. There, he stripped, stabbed, raped and killed Jackson, smashing her face into the dirt as she struggled to breathe.

He left Bush fighting for her life after stabbing her 33 times and slashing her throat.

A psychologist testified at his trial in 1982 that Guzman was insane, abused as a child and unable as an adult to control his impulses.

Guzman testified he was scared, out of control, possessed by the devil that night.

Bush’s chilling testimony convinced jurors that Guzman should be put to death for his crimes.

For four years, Guzman was death row’s youngest inmate. But in 1986, he was among the five convicted killers to have their death sentences commuted by then-Gov. Toney Anaya (D), who declared weeks before his term ended that government-sanctioned execution was inhumane, immoral, anti-God and incompatible with an enlightened society.

Anaya later told the Journal it was unlikely any of the inmates would ever walk free, given the hefty penalties for the additional convictions in their cases.

That, as it turns out, is not a guarantee.

A life sentence in New Mexico is essentially 30 years, the minimum time that must be served before parole is considered. For Guzman, those 30 years were up in 2011. That February, he turned 48. That April, the parole board denied his parole.

The board also denied parole to Guzman in 2015.

Since then, his case is supposed to go before the board every two years, though his 2017 hearing was inexplicably skipped, parole board Executive Director Jo Ann Martinez said. His hearing Tuesday was perhaps an effort to catch up.

Bush said that her statement was read to the board by speakerphone the day before the hearing Tuesday and that she received a call Friday telling her Guzman’s parole had been denied. Martinez confirmed the denial.

“You people are paying taxes to support this man in prison and all these hearings and appeals,” Bush said. “We are all still paying for what he did. And I am still angry.”

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The ****** has also been married four times and sired three children, all while in prison. Thank you Leftists for keeping POS like this on the face of the earth. Because victims lives are not as important as the convicted.

(12-27-2018 09:08 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:For the third time, a convicted killer has been denied parole, 37 years after he kidnapped two University of New Mexico students, raping and killing one of them and nearly killing the other.

But why Michael Anthony Guzman has any chance of parole still outrages and re-traumatizes family and friends of his victims – including the one who lived.

“I did not ask for this,” Colene Bush said Friday in a phone call, her voice steeped in disgust. “I did not ask to go to war. I was forced to be at war, and I was left to die and my friend did die. What he did to her was horrid.”

What he did to Bush was horrid, too.

Guzman’s night of savagery happened in April 1981, so you would be forgiven if his name or his crime isn’t familiar. He was an 18-year-old dishwasher when he abducted Bush, 20, and Julie Jackson, 19, at knifepoint near the Frontier restaurant, where the two friends had been studying and talking over cinnamon rolls and coffee.

He forced the women into the back seat of a car rigged with no door handles and no escape and drove them to a dark and steep arroyo in Tijeras Canyon. There, he stripped, stabbed, raped and killed Jackson, smashing her face into the dirt as she struggled to breathe.

He left Bush fighting for her life after stabbing her 33 times and slashing her throat.

A psychologist testified at his trial in 1982 that Guzman was insane, abused as a child and unable as an adult to control his impulses.

Guzman testified he was scared, out of control, possessed by the devil that night.

Bush’s chilling testimony convinced jurors that Guzman should be put to death for his crimes.

For four years, Guzman was death row’s youngest inmate. But in 1986, he was among the five convicted killers to have their death sentences commuted by then-Gov. Toney Anaya (D), who declared weeks before his term ended that government-sanctioned execution was inhumane, immoral, anti-God and incompatible with an enlightened society.

Anaya later told the Journal it was unlikely any of the inmates would ever walk free, given the hefty penalties for the additional convictions in their cases.

That, as it turns out, is not a guarantee.

A life sentence in New Mexico is essentially 30 years, the minimum time that must be served before parole is considered. For Guzman, those 30 years were up in 2011. That February, he turned 48. That April, the parole board denied his parole.

The board also denied parole to Guzman in 2015.

Since then, his case is supposed to go before the board every two years, though his 2017 hearing was inexplicably skipped, parole board Executive Director Jo Ann Martinez said. His hearing Tuesday was perhaps an effort to catch up.

Bush said that her statement was read to the board by speakerphone the day before the hearing Tuesday and that she received a call Friday telling her Guzman’s parole had been denied. Martinez confirmed the denial.

“You people are paying taxes to support this man in prison and all these hearings and appeals,” Bush said. “We are all still paying for what he did. And I am still angry.”

Link

The ****** has also been married four times and sired three children, all while in prison. Thank you Leftists for keeping POS like this on the face of the earth. Because victims lives are not as important as the convicted.

Prison justice would have been served on that fool a long time ago if it were my child he did that to.

(12-27-2018 09:13 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(12-27-2018 09:08 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:For the third time, a convicted killer has been denied parole, 37 years after he kidnapped two University of New Mexico students, raping and killing one of them and nearly killing the other.

But why Michael Anthony Guzman has any chance of parole still outrages and re-traumatizes family and friends of his victims – including the one who lived.

“I did not ask for this,” Colene Bush said Friday in a phone call, her voice steeped in disgust. “I did not ask to go to war. I was forced to be at war, and I was left to die and my friend did die. What he did to her was horrid.”

What he did to Bush was horrid, too.

Guzman’s night of savagery happened in April 1981, so you would be forgiven if his name or his crime isn’t familiar. He was an 18-year-old dishwasher when he abducted Bush, 20, and Julie Jackson, 19, at knifepoint near the Frontier restaurant, where the two friends had been studying and talking over cinnamon rolls and coffee.

He forced the women into the back seat of a car rigged with no door handles and no escape and drove them to a dark and steep arroyo in Tijeras Canyon. There, he stripped, stabbed, raped and killed Jackson, smashing her face into the dirt as she struggled to breathe.

He left Bush fighting for her life after stabbing her 33 times and slashing her throat.

A psychologist testified at his trial in 1982 that Guzman was insane, abused as a child and unable as an adult to control his impulses.

Guzman testified he was scared, out of control, possessed by the devil that night.

Bush’s chilling testimony convinced jurors that Guzman should be put to death for his crimes.

For four years, Guzman was death row’s youngest inmate. But in 1986, he was among the five convicted killers to have their death sentences commuted by then-Gov. Toney Anaya (D), who declared weeks before his term ended that government-sanctioned execution was inhumane, immoral, anti-God and incompatible with an enlightened society.

Anaya later told the Journal it was unlikely any of the inmates would ever walk free, given the hefty penalties for the additional convictions in their cases.

That, as it turns out, is not a guarantee.

A life sentence in New Mexico is essentially 30 years, the minimum time that must be served before parole is considered. For Guzman, those 30 years were up in 2011. That February, he turned 48. That April, the parole board denied his parole.

The board also denied parole to Guzman in 2015.

Since then, his case is supposed to go before the board every two years, though his 2017 hearing was inexplicably skipped, parole board Executive Director Jo Ann Martinez said. His hearing Tuesday was perhaps an effort to catch up.

Bush said that her statement was read to the board by speakerphone the day before the hearing Tuesday and that she received a call Friday telling her Guzman’s parole had been denied. Martinez confirmed the denial.

“You people are paying taxes to support this man in prison and all these hearings and appeals,” Bush said. “We are all still paying for what he did. And I am still angry.”

Link

The ****** has also been married four times and sired three children, all while in prison. Thank you Leftists for keeping POS like this on the face of the earth. Because victims lives are not as important as the convicted.

Prison justice would have been served on that fool a long time ago if it were my child he did that to.

He was beat up recently and moved to the geriatric part of the NM prison system.