"Serial rapist can live in LA county, judge says" Associated Press May 24, 2014
LOS ANGELES — A judge on Friday ordered that a serial rapist be released to live in a Los Angeles County community in spite of vocal protests.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown said that Christopher Evans Hubbart, 63, must be released by July 7, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement. With several severe restrictions that include 24-hour GPS monitoring, Hubbart will be allowed to rent a small house in a remote area in Lake Los Angeles, near the city of Palmdale.
The decision comes two days after a daylong hearing in Northern California, where Brown heard passionate objections from residents. Hubbart’s most recent crimes occurred in Santa Clara County, but Brown ordered him released to Los Angeles County, where Hubbart was born and raised.
‘‘I am extremely disappointed with the court’s decision,’’ said Lacey, who spent months fighting the release into her county of man with a history of at least 40 rapes.
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