The nice-grandson of cosmetics large Max Issue – a convicted rapist who has been locked up for the previous 19 years – has been denied parole after prosecutors stated he nonetheless posed a threat to the general public.
Captured and turned in by actuality TV star Duane ‘Canine the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman, 59-year-old Andrew Luster was convicted of 86 prison costs together with rape of an unconscious particular person, sodomy, and poisoning in 2003.
Then 40, Luster’s conviction solely got here after a sequence of sensational occasions that on the time captivated the nation, together with a extremely publicized trial the place California prosecutors alleged the scion took three girls to his beachfront dwelling and raped them after spiking their drinks with gamma hydroxybutyrate – or GHB.
Much more astonishing was his eventual seize by the bounty hunter, which got here after Luster – supported by a belief fund of $3 million used to journey and surf Port Ventura’s many seashores – escaped to Mexico whereas out on $1million bail.
The nice-grandson of magnificence magnate Max Issue Sr., Luster was arrested in 2000 after a 21-year-old faculty scholar advised cops he raped her. A search of his residence noticed cops discover tapes of Luster assaulting sleeping or unconscious girls.
Andrew Luster – a convicted rapist who has been locked up for the previous 19 years – has been denied parole after prosecutors stated he nonetheless posed a threat to the general public
The 59-year-old scion, pictured in June 2003 after his seize, lured girls to his beachfront Mussel Shoals and raped them after spiking their drinks with gamma hydroxybutyrate – or GHB.
The make-up inheritor – who witnesses to his crimes described as ‘childlike’ – later paid $40million to 2 unnamed feminine victims that received civil fits towards him, and has since declared chapter.
He and his authorized crew had argued that the recorded encounters have been consensual. The ladies awarded the $40million, who have been depicted a number of of the intercourse tapes, testified at Luster’s prison trial that they willingly took GHB-laced drinks, however by no means consented to the intercourse acts – which all occurred whereas they have been unconscious.
Prosecutors claimed that Luster’s drug-fueled reign of terror lasted from not less than 1996 and 2000, when he was in his 30s.
As proceedings drew on, and Luster was controversially granted $1 million bail, the intercourse fiend fled to Mexico – at which level he got here beneath radar of Chapman, who on the time was nonetheless a 12 months away from catapulting to superstardom along with his hit present.
Receiving suggestions from a wide range of sources together with Luster’s personal lawyer, Chapman, then 50, quickly tracked down the disgraced scion – who was convicted in absentia whereas on the lam – to the the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
Canine’s crew reportedly then bought in a scuffle with Luster, ultimately overpowering the fugitive, and have been capable of restrain him and whisk him right into a automobile to California.
After skipping out to Mexico throughout courtroom continuing in 2003, Luster was captured and was police by actuality TV star Duane ‘Canine the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman, who himself was arrested as a result of reality bounty looking is against the law within the Central American county
Chapman, pictured right here after Luster’s seize with half-brother Tim and son Leland, reportedly bought in a scuffle with Luster, ultimately overpowering the fugitive, and have been capable of restrain him and whisk him right into a automobile to California earlier than they have been stopped by Mexican cops
Nevertheless, seemingly unbeknownst to the crew, bounty-hunting is outlawed in Mexico – a statute Mexican lawmen have been fast to level out after they pulled over the procession earlier than they made it to the border.
The encounter noticed each Chapman and Luster arrested, with the latter extradited to the US and sentenced to 124 years in jail, to be carried out instantly.
Luster was granted the parole listening to after California voters handed the controversial Prop 57 that enables permits parole consideration for nonviolent felons
That sentence, nonetheless, was slashed in 2013 to 50, after attorneys for the then-49-year-old appealed the courtroom’s ten-year-old choice, arguing for it to decreased to 25 years or much less, citing Luster’s ‘stellar efficiency’ in jail.
A California decide then granted him a resentencing listening to, on the premise that the courtroom ‘did not state particular causes for imposing full consecutive sentences’ because the legislation requires.
Then, in 2016, Luster’s case for freedom grew extra pronounced, after California voters handed the controversial Prop 57 that enables permits parole consideration for supposedly nonviolent felons.
A loophole within the legislation additionally opened the door for the jail time reductions for felons already incarcerated for violent crimes, with a few of the crimes Luster was convicted of now categorised as ‘non-violent’ in line with the steering.
A parole listening to was subsequently set for the embattled scion in December of 2022, which was held Wednesday and noticed what was probably Luster’s final bid for freedom denied earlier than dwelling out the remainder of his days in jail.
Canine — who’s full identify is Duane Chapman — confronted felony kidnapping costs for capturing the prosperous cosmetics inheritor Andrew Luster who was on the run in Mexico after posting $1million bail for a number of costs of drugging and raping three girls
Throughout an interview with Larry King in 2006, Canine – who on the time was wished in Mexico after fleeing the nation whereas out on his personal bail – defended his choice to convey Luster to justice for his crimes, recalling how the rapist tried to supply them an alias as soon as apprehended.
‘He stated his identify was David Correra. And naturally I stated wait a minute,’ Chapman recalled. ‘That is Andrew Stuart Luster, wished on 86 counts of rape, bought 124 hundred years in jail… after all luster spoke fluent Spanish and was telling the law enforcement officials I m not that man, blah blah blah.’
Canine’s lawyer William Bollard advised Larry King: ‘Greatest case they dismiss, the case goes away. Worst case they’ve to remain on trial in Puerto Vallarta on a single cost of deprivation of liberty, it carries with it a sentence vary from six months to 4 years.’
In 2007, Canine dodged extradition to Mexico when a decide lastly dismissed the case.
