I would tell you about Joseph Noble, the repeated child molester who bragged that sadistically raping or sodomizing a beautiful young girl gives him “incredible pleasure” and that their screams of agony are “music to my ears,” and whose “nonviolent” third offense will make him eligible for immediate release if Prop 66 passes, but Patterico has already said all that needs to be said about him. Read the whole thing.

Also worth reading is a comment from Sherry Souza, the mother of one of Richard Keenan’s victims. Richard Keenan, you may recall, is the intended beneficiary of an obscure provision of Prop 66 that would weaken the definitions of first and second strikes, which are already required to be “serious” or “violent.” I’ve reproduced Ms. Souza’s comment below, with emphasis added by me.

Mr Pattrico,
I have been reading your web page with great interest regarding Prop 66. The man who has been financing this proposition (Jerry Keenan) is the father of the man who killed my son.

I would like to share with you the hell we have been living ever since the CRASH in Sept 1999. First understand this was not an accident. Richard Keenan was driving at an admitted speed of over 95 miles an hour. He had consumed a large amount of marijuana and beer prior to coming to my sons house on this fateful evening. It is very important you know this was not a bunch of kids partying and drinking, in fact neither of our children had drugs or alcohol in their system when they died. Marsha ( the young girl who died) had been offered a ride to her car by Richard Keenan. My son went with her so she would not have to drive home alone…The car rolled over 250 feet my son was ejected and the car rolled over him, he died instantly. His autopsy report was over 22 pages long..Marsha was alive and struggling to breath. Now here comes the part we must live with forever…Richard Keenan called his father BEFORE calling 911. THe firehouse was 5 miles away. AS Marsha fought to breath the oxygen deprived from her brain, Richard chatted with his dad…and then his mom and then dad again. Jerry Keenan lived over 12 miles away, yet he made it to the crash site the same time as the fire vehicles. Jerry Keenan had to be escorted from the area due to his interference. He was telling the other passingers not to say anything, he would get them all attorneys…Marsha died 5 days later. Her mother feels I had the worse time having a police officer coming to my house to tell me my son was dead. I feel her time was worse, picking the time her daughter would die by removing life support.

Now we are thrust into the judical system. For 15 months we dealt with attorneys, delays, Jerry Keenan pointed at us and told us if we called his son a murderer he would sue us!! My God.. In December 2000 Richard Keenan was sentence by pea bargain to 8 years for 2 counts of vehicular manslaughter and 1 count great bodily injury, for which he agreed serve 85%. Release date Sept 2007.

We thought we were done. that now we could possibly grieve. We were so wrong. In March 2001 Jerry Keenans attorney filed an 1170D Motion to modify sentence. You see Richard was sentenced to Centella Prison at a level 3. The argument? he was a red haired caucasion in a highly hispanic prison he felt his life was threatened. After much research I discovered Richard’s army of attorneys had left his high school diploma out of is “go to prison Packet” had he had this document he would be placed at a level 2. This document should of been pinned to his collar…. I contacted the Warden at Centella to inform his one of his inmates was going to die!! He called and stated Richard had not even participated in any work or rehab programs. Do ya think his attorneys are manipulating the system?? They argued for fire camp. That Richard would be a good candidate for fire camp instead of being a prisoner. Many letters and court dates later the 8 year sentence stands.

Now we have to be done…not quite

In August 2002 Jerry Keenan and his attorneys gets a private audience with the sentencing judge. In a letter to Judge Jane Ure he states his kid is not a criminal in the criminal sense, he just commited a crime…(what!?)The Judge writes a letter to the Warden of Folsom ( he had been transfered) strongly suggesting Richard for fire camp. Do you know anything about fire camp? Do you know if you go to fire camp you can only have 2 years left on your sentence? Richard had 5. Once again we are forced to deal with this nightmare. When does it stop? Letters from our local congress man and family stopped this travisty.

In May of this year another supreme Court hearing. This time to remove the GBI enhancement from his sentence. Reason? The kid who got hurt works for Jerry Keenan and has received numerous promotions in the insurance office. He wrote a letter to the court stating if he died Richard would only have to serve 50% of his time and would be out by now, so he’s sorry he lived..give me a break. The judge stated if 3 people would of died there would be no plea bargain and he probably would of received 15 to 25 years.

Now prop 66.

Look on the Secretary of State donation web page and see how much Jerry Keenan has donated to this sick initiative. Do you think it is personnal? You bet it is. When asked in May of this year by the Sacto Bee if he knew anyone in prison Jerry Keenan said no..He later had to state he said that to protect his son.

Please make this stop. All we ask is Richard Keenan to serve the time he agreed upon. We must live with the decisions he made that horrific night. Now he must live with the decisions made by the law.