Youth offender parole hearings.

Existing law generally requires the Board of Parole Hearings to conduct youth offender parole hearings to consider the release of offenders who committed specified crimes when they were under 26 years of age and who were sentenced to state prison. Existing law makes a youth offender eligible for parole during the their 15th year of incarceration if the sentence is a determinate sentence, during their 20th year of incarceration if the sentence is a life term of less than 25 years to life, and during their 25th year of incarceration if the sentence is a life term of 25 years to life. Under existing law, youth offender parole hearings do not apply to cases in which sentencing occurs pursuant to the Three Strikes Law or to the Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act (Jessica's Law) , approved as Proposition 83 at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, or to cases in which an individual is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a controlling offense that was committed after the person had attained 18 years of age. This bill would make youth offender parole hearings inapplicable to a person convicted of murder in the first or 2nd degree dor a murder that was committed after the person had attained 18 years of age.