California Gov. Gavin Newsom has granted a pardon to Sara Kruzan who spent 18 years in prison for murdering the man who trafficked her for sex as a teen.
In 1995, when she was 16, Kruzan was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. She had fatally shot the man who she said had sex trafficked her since she was 13.
In 2010, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted Kruzan’s sentence to 25 years to life with the possibility of parole. A few years later, in 2013, she was resentenced to 19 years to life and released after serving 18 years in prison.
Newsom’s pardon noted that Kruzan had transformed her life since being released from prison and dedicated herself to community service….