Parole for a former Marine convicted of attempted murder at Lover’s Point back in 2000.

MONTEREY, Calif. (KION-TV) – Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pachoni announced that the California Board of Parole Hearings made a decision in late February to grant parole to a man convicted of attempted murder of a woman in 2000. in Pacific Grove.

Jason Blood, a 43-year-old former Marine, was granted parole by two parole board commissioners on October 11, 2022. After parole was granted, the victim’s family and the Monterey County District Attorney’s office asked Governor Newsom to forward the parole review to the entire group of 21 Board of Parole Commissioners.

Blood served 21 years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation after being sentenced to 7 years to life. According to Paccioni, this was Blade’s seventh parole board hearing.

Both sides advocated the abolition of parole. The family begged the board not to release the attackers on their daughter.

In an October hearing, the Parole Board used “young offender” factors to find Blood eligible for parole. Blood was 21 years old at the time of the assassination attempt and listed his accomplishments since his time in prison.

“He has participated in and completed many of the programs offered to prisoners both in the field of work and in the field of self-help. The board determined that he had no negative associations in prison and that he had an adequate release plan,” Paccioni said.

Back in 2000, Blood, for an unknown reason, along with co-defendant Jesse Jay Carson, planned to kill their victim on a hiking trail in Lover’s Point. Paccioni said they prepared and hastily selected a lone victim.

Paccioni said the couple held the victim and repeatedly stabbed and stabbed her. They threatened to kill her, mocking her.

“The victim was unarmed, alone, vulnerable and did not pose a threat to the defendants. Blood’s actions went far beyond what was necessary for him to be convicted of attempted first-degree murder and shocked the Monterey community,” Paccioni said.

The co-defendants were uniformed active duty Marines at the time they were enrolled in the Defense Language Institute’s cryptological linguistics program. Initially, both gave alibis that proved to be true, but after Carson went through a mental health crisis a few months later, the truth came out, Paccioni said.

No release date has been set for Blad.