How Garrido got out the first time

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Source: SFGate

When Phillip Craig Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1977 for kidnapping a South Lake Tahoe woman so he could rape her in a Reno storage unit, the prosecutor who put him away figured that was one sexual predator who was gone for good.

Under sentencing guidelines now in place, Garrido would have been behind bars for more than two decades - and wouldn't have been free in 1991 when 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was snatched off the street in South Lake Tahoe, not far from where Garrido kidnapped Katie Callaway Hall in 1976.

But under 1970s-era sentencing laws, Garrido was eligible for federal parole after just 10 years - and he was set free in 1988.

"It was a horrendous crime," said Leland Lufty, the former federal prosecutor in Reno who won the 1977 conviction against Garrido. "We had a tough judge. As far as we were concerned, he was locked up forever.

"How could they do that?" Lufty asked. "Look at the record, look at what the guy did - this case was premeditated as it could be."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/01/BANS19GU6D.DTL&tsp=1

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He's a perfect example of someone who should be locked up forever.