{"id":40719,"date":"2013-07-27T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=40719"},"modified":"2013-07-31T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:02:42","slug":"da-petitions-state-supreme-court-to-halt-release-of-serial-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/07\/27\/da-petitions-state-supreme-court-to-halt-release-of-serial-rapist\/","title":{"rendered":"DA petitions state Supreme Court to halt release of serial rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christopher Hubbart (undated booking photo) admitted to raping and sexually assaulting 38 women throughout California between 1971 and 1982, including 26 women in Los Angeles County.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2013 District Attorney Jackie Lacey has announced that her office will ask the California Supreme Court to order a new hearing on the conditional release of serial rapist Christopher Hubbart<\/strong> to Los Angeles County later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am asking the California Supreme Court to grant us an opportunity to oppose the release of a sexually violent predator into any community \u2013 not just ours,\u201d District Attorney Lacey said. \u201cIt\u2019s my job to safeguard our communities. This man has sexually assaulted nearly 40 women and, in my opinion, continues to pose a significant threat to public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important issue that must be addressed,\u201d Lacey continued. \u201cThe people of California deserve to have an advocate dedicated to protecting them all.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, District Attorney Lacey is asking the Supreme Court to determine that Hubbart\u2019s domicile is Santa Clara County \u2013 not Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n

In its court filings, the District Attorney\u2019s Office contends that Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown made a legal error when he declared Hubbart\u2019s domicile as Los Angeles County. Though Hubbart was born and raised in Los Angeles County, he has not lived in Los Angeles County since 1972 \u2013 with the exception of two months in 1993, when he was paroled to San Bernardino County but lived in Claremont. He lived in Santa Clara County in the years leading to his last arrest and no longer has family living in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n

California law (Welfare and Institutions Code section 6608.5) requires that a sexually violent predator be conditionally released to the county of his or her domicile \u201cprior to the person\u2019s incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hubbart lived in Santa Clara County from November 1979 to November 1981 and was paroled there for two months in 1990 when his parole was revoked and he was returned to state prison. Santa Clara County last prosecuted Hubbart and initiated the proceedings that deemed him a sexually violent predator in 1996. He has been in state custody since then.<\/p>\n

The writ petition also seeks to stop any release of Hubbart until the legal issues are resolved.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose summarily denied the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s challenge to Hubbart\u2019s release to Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n

Hubbart admitted to raping and sexually assaulting 38 women throughout California between 1971 and 1982, including 26 women in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n

(Information via press release from the Los Angeles District Attorney\u2019s Office.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2013 District Attorney Jackie Lacey has announced that her office will ask the California Supreme Court to order a new hearing on the conditional release of serial rapist Christopher Hubbart to Los Angeles County later this year. \u201cI am asking the California Supreme Court to grant us an opportunity to oppose the release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}