CRIME VICTIMS UNITED - Mary Thompson "Gang Mom" Set for HB 3508
CRIME VICTIMS UNITED
NEWS RELEASE: December 29, 2009
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Mary Thompson "Gang Mom" Set for HB 3508
Early Release Hearing
When: Wednesday, December 30th, 2:40 p.m., check time with court administration, 541-682-4166
Where: Lane County Courthouse, Judge Debra Vogt, Room 303
What: House Bill 3508 hearing for Mary Louise Thompson
The following case is receiving a hearing under HB3508 passed by the 2009 Legislature to give an additional 10% “earned time” to the already 20% most convicted felons in Oregon receive. The federal government and most states using sentencing guidelines allow for a maximum 15% “earned time.” The architects of HB 3508, Senator Chip Shields D-Portland and Senator Floyd Prozanski D-Eugene have stated that the bill provided additional “earned time” for low level property and drug criminals only.
Mary Louise Thompson, in prison since 1996 for the MURDER of AARON ITURRA, BURGLARY IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND 6 COUNTS OF HINDERING PROSECUTION is scheduled to receive a hearing on whether she should be given 10 % additional “earned time” (shortening of her sentence) on the Burglary and Hindering charges.
Janyce Iturra, mother of murder victim Aaron Iturra stated, "I have been re-victimized, this time not by Mary Thompson, but by the Oregon Legislature."
FACTUAL BACKGROUND:
On October 3, 1994, two juveniles, Joseph Richard Brown and James Roger Elstad, broke into the home of Janyce Iturra, entered her sleeping son’s bedroom and shot Aaron Iturra in the back of the head. The murder was committed to prevent Aaron from testifying in juvenile court against a violent gang member named Beau Flynn, who was a defendant in a stabbing case and Mary Thompson’s son.
Brown and Elstad, the two juveniles, plead guilty to murder and received sentences of 10 years and 16 years respectively. The mastermind of the killing of Aaron Iturra was Mary Thompson.
Mary Thompson was convicted in a 6 week jury trial of numerous crimes and ultimately sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 25 years on the Murder charge; 18 consecutive= months in prison on the Burglary in the First Degree charge, and a total of 108 consecutive months on three Hindering Prosecution charges and 54 concurrent months on three other Hindering Prosecution charges. Given these facts, Mary Thompson should not be considered for even one day off of her sentence. However, HB 3508 as passed by the 2009 Legislature requires the courts to do so.
"When Thompson killed Aaron, I was sentenced to life without him. I will never receive 'earned time' off of that sentence," Ms. Iturra concluded.
CRIME VICTIM, JANYCE ITURRA, WILL BE AVAILABLE TO SPEAK WITH MEMBERS OF THE PRESS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE HEARING.
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A Lane County judge denied the appeal of the woman known as "Gang Mom."
Getting out of prison unix hosting early was a possibility for Mary Thompson under the new "earned time" law. Thompson is serving 25 years for the murder of Eugene teenager frontpage hosting Aaron Iturra back in 1994. Friday, a judge made it clear she is going to serve as much of that term as possible.
The smile never left Janyce Iturra's face after the judge said no to shortening jsp hosting the sentence of her son's murderer.
"And for her to speak to me, and not to the crowd or the attorneys, but to me personally, it made me feel like she really did understand what this does to victims throughout the state of Oregon."
The Iturra case highlights the nearly 4,800 cases re-opening in Oregon county courts because of new law 3508 domain hosting. It's also re-opening old wounds.