Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams, who urged Gov. Newsom to reverse a Parole Board’s decision to release a Vallejo woman convicted of a 2007 murder in Dixon, confirmed on Thursday the decision has been reversed.
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A Parole Board panel on Jan. 7 held the first suitability-for-release hearing for Linville, who is currently serving a sentence of 25 years to life in state prison for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She was convicted in 2013 in Solano County Superior Court for her involvement in the murder of Christina Baxley, a single mother working two jobs who was killed while walking her dog on lunch break.
Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams (Reporter File)Linville was given a suitability hearing date after serving far less than her minimum sentence, Abrams noted in the prepared statement, adding, “This was obviously very concerning to our office, but more importantly to the family who had lost their loved one to murder.”
Linville’s early-release hearing for murder may come as a surprise to those unfamilair with state law.
When Proposition 57 passed in 2016 (early release for nonviolent offenders), the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation implemented new sentence credit provisions and awarded credits to inmates serving time for violent offenses.
But Abrams believes that contradicts the law on credits in murder cases and added in the news release, “Despite this issue being reviewed by the Court of Appeals, violent inmates are still being awarded these credits.”
In 2007, Linville was charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder for giving her vehicle (used in the course of a murder) to a friend in Richmond to avoid detection. She quickly pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to prison.
While incarcerated on that charge, Linville, according to Abrams, bragged about getting away with Baxley’s murder. Linville also wrote letters to a number of men in custody, telling them she got away with murder. Additionally, she wrote a letter to serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka The Night Stalker, whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the Bay Area from April 1984 to August 1985, telling him, among other things, “The fan phenomenon surrounding alleged serial killers is very fascinating to me.”
When additional evidence surfaced, Linville was eventually charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder and convicted of those charges at trial.
The sentencing hearing included, Abrams wrote, “heartbreaking statements from the victim’s family that included her parents having to bury their child and her two young sons growing up without their mother. The quiet town of Dixon was shocked and devastated by this murder.”
Abrams appeared at the Jan. 7 suitability hearing and urged the Parole Board to deny parole for Linville.
“It was one of the most disturbing cases I have tried in my career,” said Abrams.
Paige Linville convicted of first-degree murder for her role in the methamphetamine-fueled "thrill kill" of 41-year-old Christina Baxley, cries during her sentencing hearing in 2013. (Reporter file).The Parole Board made the following findings, she said: that Linville had a long criminal history, numerous violations of probation, criminal attitude, acted in a callous manner, disregarded the impact on the victims and community, had a significant history of drug use, committed crimes that were truly senseless, extremely callous, and brutal in nature.
And still the panel found Linville suitable for parole, noted Abrams.
“Our office was shocked by the Parole Board Panel’s decision,” she wrote in the statement. “We sent correspondence to the governor, strongly urging him to reverse the decision of the Parole Board Panel.”
And she thanked the governor, on behalf of Christina Baxley’s family and loved ones, “for making the right decision in this case.”
“It is unfortunate that Christina’s family had to undergo this emotional rollercoaster so early in Linville’s sentence, but I am thankful that the governor agreed with our objection and argument that Linville has no business being released from prison at this time,” said Abrams.
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