by On Wednesday, the state’s Board of Parole Hearings will hear the cases of two prisoners serving life terms in well-known San Diego County criminal cases.
One, Robert Dean Rustad, often known as the Del Mar Rapist, is incarcerated for 326 years to life for raping many women between 1992 and 1996. Meanwhile, Aerith Asora and her sister, Brae Hansen, were found guilty of the murder of their stepfather, Timothy MacNeil, a local lawyer.
Recent modifications to state law have made them eligible for parole hearings.
These revisions to the statute changed the eligibility for parole for prisoners who were under 25 at the time of the offense, as well as those who are 50 years of age or older and have served at least 20 years.
Rustad, who was between the ages of 19 and 22, was not granted juvenile parole last year and is no longer qualified to obtain it.
Rustad, who is 51 years old and has served more than 20 years in prison, has been given a hearing on Wednesday in accordance with the elder parole rule.
Rustad stormed into the houses of seven women, raped or sexually abused six of them, and some of the victims were tied up and threatened with knives, according to the prosecution.
Asora, formerly known as Nathan Gann, will be given a parole hearing under the youthful parole law after being sentenced to 25 years to life in jail. When Asora was murdered, she was 19 years old.
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Asora shot MacNeil four times during the 2007 home invasion robbery that prosecutors claimed Asora and Hansen orchestrated at their Rolando Village house. Earlier this year, Hansen was refused parole.
According to a statement from the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, which is against the release of both prisoners, the elder and/or young parole laws were the reason behind almost 70% of the parole hearings it heard last year.
