Sept. 10, 2010 — Requests from victims and witnesses were considered and once convicted killer Loren Herzog will be released on parole in Lassen County rather than San Joaquin County.
According to Luis Patino,public information officer for the California Department of Corrections, by law, a parolee should be released to the county of last legal residence.
However, Patino said, victims, victims’ next-of-kin and witnesses have the right to file for special consideration as to the location of the parole releases of their offenders. All requests are evaluated on a case by case basis.
Patino said, “CDCR received additional valid requests. And an evaluation was made to determine what level of consideration was to be granted within the confines of the law. Based on those requests and the confines of the law, Loren Herzog will not be released in San Joaquin County. Herzog will be released in mid-September in Lassen County.”
Recordnet.com, a news sources serving the Stockton and the San Joaquin County areas, reported “Herzog had been sentenced to 78 years for three murders as conspirator to Wesley Shermantinte, who remains on death row for four murders.”
According to a press release from the California State Department of Corrections it says, Herzog was convicted in Santa Clara County, a change of venue from San Joaquin County, in December 2001.
In 2004, a state appellate court threw out Herzog’s three murder convictions and much of the evidence against him.
That led to a plea bargain and Herzog pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. On Dec. 8, 2004, he began serving a 14-year determinate sentence for voluntary manslaughter, three counts of being an accessory to a felony and one count of transportation of a controlled substance. Credit was applied for time Herzog served in county jail and state prison.
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