DENVER — Among the many measures Colorado voters will see on November’s ballot is one asking them to change parole eligibility for certain violent crimes.
Proposition 128 would increase the time people convicted of certain violent crimes — including second-degree murder, sexual assault, aggravated robbery, first-degree assault, arson and kidnapping — would have to serve before they could become eligible for discretionary parole or earned time reduction.
The state parole board released convicted sex offender Kenneth Dean Lee less than six years into a sentence that was supposed to be 23 years to life. The parole board said Lee was “at low risk to society to reoffend.”
“I will be known as the person who can be trusted,” Lee said in his parole hearing.
About 18 months after his release, he was arrested again . According to the Aurora Police Department, Lee sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl while posing as an immigration official. He pleaded guilty in 2023 to sexual assault of a child, burglary and sexual exploitation of a child and was sentenced to 40 years in prison