An individual convicted offirst-degree murderin cold blood plainly merits a different sentence than an inmate found guilty of kidnapping someone without causing death or serious bodily harm or one whoplaced an obstruction in a railroad path that did not fatally hurt anyone. See Cal. Penal Code § 190(a); § 209(a); § 219. Indeed, the circumstances of Mr. Butler’s own conviction undermine the Board’s suggestion that it can constitutionally render the possibility of parole meaningless for every single one of the 9,315 life prisoners who—as of thefiling of Mr. Butler’s supplemental petition—had served sentences beyond their minimum eligible parole dates. Supp. Habeas Pet. App’x. Ex. Z (Decl. of Austin) J 24.

B. The Prosecution's Only Evidence For A Kidnaping Was Mr. Rountree's Redacted Statements. Mr. Rountree was charged with kidnaping under Penal Code sections 207 and 209, and as a special circumstance within the meaning of Penal 155 Code section 190.2. (l CT 2-5.)

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