A San Diego woman who was a teenager when she teamed with her sibling to kill their stepfather and stage the crime scene as a home-invasion robbery in 2007 was found suitable for parole Friday.<\/p>\n
Brea Hansen, now 37, was 17 years old when longtime attorney Timothy MacNeil was shot four times in his Rolando home. She initially told police that she and her stepfather had been surprised by an intruder dressed in black. But she slipped up in subsequent interviews and referred to the intruder by the name of her 19-year-old sibling.<\/p>\n
At Hansen\u2019s trial in 2009, prosecutors argued that the pair had plotted to kill MacNeil, 63, for money. They also argued that although Hansen\u2019s sibling had pulled the trigger, Hansen was the mastermind.<\/p>\n
On Friday, District Attorney Summer Stephan said in a statement that her office was \u201cdeeply disappointed\u201d with the decision to grant Hansen parole. She called the slaying \u201ca callous, premeditated murder motivated by greed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hansen\u2019s attorney, who is with the Post-Conviction Justice Project at University of Southern California Gould School of Law, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Laws regarding incarceration of youthful offenders \u2014 age 25 or younger at the time of the crime \u2014 have evolved since the siblings were tried. Hansen\u2019s sentence was first reduced to 25 years to life, and the state later created a pathway to earlier parole for many youthful offenders serving life sentences.<\/p>\n
Both siblings were convicted of first-degree murder, although Hansen was also convicted of a special circumstance allegation of lying in wait. Her sibling, who is transgender and now goes by the name Aerith Asora, was sentenced to 25 years to life. Hansen was sentenced<\/a> to life without parole.<\/p>\n
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Brae Hansen, left, with her attorney, San Diego County Deputy Public Defender Troy Britt, on March 23, 2009, during opening statements in the trial for the 2007 slaying of her stepfather, La Mesa criminal defense lawyer Timothy MacNeil. (Howard Lipin \/ U-T file)<\/p>\n