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PAROLE DENIED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDERER
On June 12, 2018, The California Board of Parole Hearings declined to grant parole to Jeffrey Allen Tate, noting that he still poses a “high risk for violence” if released into the community.
Tate, who has now been denied parole five times, is currently serving a life sentence at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo for the heinous attack and attempted murder of Jennifer Minton on May 14, 1992.
Ms. Minton, a kindergarten teacher, was riding her bicycle along Turner Road in an isolated area of Amador County. Tate approached her in his white Chevrolet pickup and asked for directions to Drytown. After a friendly exchange, he drove away only to turn around and ram her from behind with his truck, knocking her off the bicycle and breaking her ankle. He then grabbed her at knifepoint and ordered her into the truck. She resisted, and Tate stabbed her three times, puncturing a lung, damaging her liver, and eviscerating her abdomen. As she struggled to gather her intestines and hold them in, Tate then tried to bind her with handcuffs he had fashioned with zip ties.
Christopher Poor and Jason Mayberry happened to be driving by and stopped, thinking it was a traffic accident; but Ms. Minton cried out that she had been stabbed three times. Poor initially tried to detain Tate, but ultimately let him go in order to tend to Ms. Minton’s injuries while Mayberry left to summon help.
When Tate attacked Ms. Minton, he had already committed three sex offenses—including two rapes at knifepoint—and had been on CYA parole for about six months.
Tate was ultimately convicted of attempted murder with use of a weapon, attempted kidnapping, and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. In total, he received a sentence of five years and ten months plus Life in prison with the possibility of parole, meaning he first became eligible for parole in 2003.
During the hearing, Tate acknowledged that he initially approached Ms. Minton “to size her up” and that “she was a pretty lady by herself in the backcountry [and] seemed like any easy target.” The Board Commissioner also noted that Tate had a sustained violation of prison rules for fighting as recently as 2014.
Chief Assistant District Attorney Robert Trudgen praised the ruling. “Even if Ms. Minton was a spontaneous victim of choice, the fact that Mr. Tate already had a knife and homemade handcuffs shows that he planned to attack somebody. Mr. Tate has a deeply-entrenched history of sexual violence and will continue to present a serious threat to the community if he is released. Frankly, if not for the heroism of Mayberry and Poor, Ms. Minton would no longer be with us.”
Tate will be eligible for parole again in five years.
Note: the attached link is an editorial written by Jennifer Minton's sister in 1995.
On June 12, 2018, The California Board of Parole Hearings declined to grant parole to Jeffrey Allen Tate, noting that he still poses a “high risk for violence” if released into the community.
Tate, who has now been denied parole five times, is currently serving a life sentence at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo for the heinous attack and attempted murder of Jennifer Minton on May 14, 1992.
Ms. Minton, a kindergarten teacher, was riding her bicycle along Turner Road in an isolated area of Amador County. Tate approached her in his white Chevrolet pickup and asked for directions to Drytown. After a friendly exchange, he drove away only to turn around and ram her from behind with his truck, knocking her off the bicycle and breaking her ankle. He then grabbed her at knifepoint and ordered her into the truck. She resisted, and Tate stabbed her three times, puncturing a lung, damaging her liver, and eviscerating her abdomen. As she struggled to gather her intestines and hold them in, Tate then tried to bind her with handcuffs he had fashioned with zip ties.
Christopher Poor and Jason Mayberry happened to be driving by and stopped, thinking it was a traffic accident; but Ms. Minton cried out that she had been stabbed three times. Poor initially tried to detain Tate, but ultimately let him go in order to tend to Ms. Minton’s injuries while Mayberry left to summon help.
When Tate attacked Ms. Minton, he had already committed three sex offenses—including two rapes at knifepoint—and had been on CYA parole for about six months.
Tate was ultimately convicted of attempted murder with use of a weapon, attempted kidnapping, and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. In total, he received a sentence of five years and ten months plus Life in prison with the possibility of parole, meaning he first became eligible for parole in 2003.
During the hearing, Tate acknowledged that he initially approached Ms. Minton “to size her up” and that “she was a pretty lady by herself in the backcountry [and] seemed like any easy target.” The Board Commissioner also noted that Tate had a sustained violation of prison rules for fighting as recently as 2014.
Chief Assistant District Attorney Robert Trudgen praised the ruling. “Even if Ms. Minton was a spontaneous victim of choice, the fact that Mr. Tate already had a knife and homemade handcuffs shows that he planned to attack somebody. Mr. Tate has a deeply-entrenched history of sexual violence and will continue to present a serious threat to the community if he is released. Frankly, if not for the heroism of Mayberry and Poor, Ms. Minton would no longer be with us.”
Tate will be eligible for parole again in five years.
Note: the attached link is an editorial written by Jennifer Minton's sister in 1995.
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