The third time wasn’t the appeal and neither was the fourth for a person in search of parole from his life sentence for the rape and assault of a Boston University pupil in 1976.
Jose Rodriguez, then 59, apologized to his sufferer at his fourth parole listening to in March 2019 and said that he was attending Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous conferences, working within the jail clothes store and is now a training Buddhist.
But the Parole Board, in its January 2020 choice, famous that whereas he had made progress, they didn’t really feel it was sufficient to warrant his launch at the moment. Rodriguez appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court which, on Tuesday, upheld the parole denial.
“Mr. Rodriguez has a history of sexual assault cases. Most notably, he committed this brutal rape of a stranger and then committed two serious sexual assaults while on bail,” the Parole Board wrote.
“He has completed SOTP (Sex Offender Treatment Program), but only after several failures over the decades. He has made progress in his rehabilitation, but has yet to demonstrate a level of rehabilitative progress that would make his release compatible with the welfare of society.”
The crime was a nasty one. As the Parole Board describes it, Rodriguez, then 16, on Sept. 27, 1976, adopted the BU pupil in Brookline, and she or he would later notice she felt like she was being adopted.
He referred to as out to her and placed on a present of asking for instructions as he walked nearer, solely to then thrust a damaged bottle underneath her throat. He pushed her up a driveway and right into a yard after which threw her to the bottom and raped her. Rodriguez would later admit that he smoked a cigarette and took her pants in order that he might purchase a while.
Blood dripping from her neck from the bottle assault, the lady ran dwelling and referred to as police.
Rodriguez could be convicted for the crime on July 20, 1977, in Norfolk Superior Court, however one thing was off and the Supreme Judicial Court reversed that call and ordered a brand new trial in 1979.
Rodriguez was out on bail and didn’t present up for the brand new trial date and remained a fugitive for seven years, throughout which he lived underneath an assumed identify in California till he was caught and extradited again to Massachusetts. He was reconvicted within the new trial in 1987 — life in jail with the opportunity of parole for rape and a concurrent time period of eight to 10 years for assault and battery by way of a harmful weapon.
He was denied parole in his first listening to in 2000 and in two extra hearings in 2006 and 2013.
The Parole Board mentioned it reached its choice for components together with what it noticed as Rodriguez’s “lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility” in addition to “vulnerability to negative influences and outside pressures” and a “lack of ability to extricate themselves from horrific, crime-producing settings.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”