SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The state is appealing a court order that called for the immediate release of one of three men convicted of kidnapping and burying a busload of schoolchildren in a 1970s ransom attempt. The San Francisco-based 1st District Court of Appeal had ruled in February that the Board of Parole Hearings unfairly set Richard Schoenfeld's release date for 2021, even though it concluded that he wasn't a threat to society after 34 years behind bars. It ordered Schoenfeld released immediately unless officials appealed its decision to the California Supreme Court.
California appeals release of 1970s bus kidnapper