{"id":64288,"date":"2022-06-15T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64288"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:54:54","slug":"parole-board-oks-gators-release-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64288","title":{"rendered":"Parole Board OK&#8217;s Gator&#8217;s Release, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-64289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gator_2019-160x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gator_2019-160x200.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gator_2019.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Former pro skateboarder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=rogowski\"><strong>Mark &#8220;Gator&#8221; Rogowski<\/strong><\/a>, who was convicted of raping and murdering a girl in his Carlsbad, California condo in 1991, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdcr.ca.gov\/bph\/2022\/07\/20\/hearing-results-june-2022\/\"><strong>again been approved for release<\/strong><\/a> from prison by the California Board of Parole. That doesn&#8217;t exactly mean he&#8217;s going to be leaving San Diego&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov\/Details.aspx?ID=H27508\"><strong>RJ Donovan Correctional Facility<\/strong><\/a> any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 California Governor <strong>Gavin Newsom<\/strong>&nbsp;overturned the board&#8217;s first release ruling in Gator&#8217;s case and San Diego District Attorney <strong>Summer Stephan<\/strong> is asking him to do it again, according to a story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/public-safety\/story\/2022-06-15\/da-fighting-parole-granted-to-former-skateboard-star-convicted-of-1991-carlsbad-rape-murder\"><strong>San Diego Union-Tribune<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a statement, Stephan said family and friends of 22-year-old <strong>Jessica Bergsten<\/strong> \u201cdeserve the continued promise of justice in this case.&nbsp;\u201cOur office argued strongly against releasing this violent defendant,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Governor Newsom has 60-90 days to decide what should happen in Gator&#8217;s case. If he doesn&#8217;t nothing, then Gator will be scheduled for release. Guess we&#8217;ll know sometime in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/stop-parole-of-rapist-murderer-mark-rogowski\"><strong>Click here to sign a Change.org petition to keep Gator in prison<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/gavin-newsom-petition-to-affirm-mark-rogowski-parole-release-c7f32018-8de9-4e5b-a902-335ee651ee6a\"><strong>Or here to sign a Change.org petition in favor of release<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/public-safety\/story\/2022-06-15\/da-fighting-parole-granted-to-former-skateboard-star-convicted-of-1991-carlsbad-rape-murder\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former pro skateboarder Mark &#8220;Gator&#8221; Rogowski, who was convicted of raping and murdering a girl in his Carlsbad, California condo in 1991, has again been approved for release from prison by the California Board of Parole. That doesn&#8217;t exactly mean he&#8217;s going to be leaving San Diego&#8217;s RJ Donovan Correctional Facility any time soon. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64288"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64320,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64288\/revisions\/64320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}