At the urging of the Tuolumne County District Attorney's Office, a man convicted of both second-degree murder and second-degree robbery in 1991 was denied
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Sonora, CA – A convict with crimes in three states including murder and child molestation was denied parole for the one committed in Tuolumne County.
70-year-old Eric Richard Eleson was denied parole at a hearing held via videoconference on January 29th. In the 90s he was found guilty of three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 under the Three Strike Rule and sentenced to 85-years-to-life in prison.
The Tuolumne County District Attorney’s office, in a written release, detailed his crime. On Oct. 4, 1994, an eight-year-old girl told her parents that Eleson had molested her and her six-year-old sister twice the night before. Eleson, a family friend and computer repairman, was at the home to fix their