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There was little wonder why Theodore Streleski, 49, spent more than seven years in a California prison. What was troublesome was that he was a free man last week, still unrepentant over the brutal murder he had committed. Even more grotesque was his refusal to deny that he would kill again. Said he: "As I stand here now, I have no intention of killing again. On the other hand, I cannot predict the future...
...Streleski had languished at Stanford University for 19 years trying to complete his dissertation for his doctorate in mathematics. Finally, one day in August 1978, his frustration boiled over. He grabbed a sledgehammer, confronted Math Professor Karel deLeeuw and viciously bludgeoned him to death. Convicted of second-degree murder, Streleski refused parole three times because it would have required him to stay away from Stanford and undergo psychiatric treatment. Under California law he could be held no longer and had to be released unconditionally. "I am happy to get out," he said. "Stanford treats students criminally. If I express remorse...
...California, meanwhile, authorities may be forced to release from custody a prisoner they regard as a danger to society. In 1978 Theodore Streleski, who had spent 19 years unsuccessfully seeking a mathematics Ph.D. at Stanford University, bludgeoned to death his academic adviser; Streleski reportedly told authorities that the killing was a "political" act to protest Stanford's handling of graduate students. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder and the use of a deadly weapon, which then carried a maximum sentence of eight years. In four weeks Streleski, 47, will have served his full term, with time...
...problem: penal systems that too often free prisoners who seem obvious threats to society. But the two cases also illustrate how difficult solutions are. The parole system many New Yorkers are so eager to abandon could end up being replaced by one like the penal approach that governed the Streleski and White cases. In eleven states, including California, parole release has been abolished for most offenders in favor of a fixed, or "determinate," sentencing system. Under it, a judge must impose punishment from a narrow range of options set by the legislature or some administrative body, and an offender must...
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