Crime | quadriplegic Quadriplegic Rapist Denied Parole Calif. board rejects first inmate considered under medical parole law By Rob Quinn Posted May 25, 2011 4:41 AM CDT Copied Inmate Steven Martinez has been denied parole. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, handout) A convicted rapist paralyzed from the neck down after he was stabbed by another inmate a decade ago has been denied parole in California. Steven Martinez was the first inmate to be considered for medical parole under a new state law aimed at saving the expense of providing medical care to incapacitated inmates, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Martinez is serving a 157 years for numerous felonies in connection with the beating and rape of a woman in 1998. The parole board noted that Martinez had threatened nurses and other female staffers multiple times. "This panel finds that he is a violent person who can use other people to carry out threats and would be a public safety threat to those attending to him outside prison walls," said the board commissioner. Martinez's medical care costs California taxpayers an estimated $625,000 a year, and he is required to be kept under guard despite his condition. Read These Next Trumps ends trade talks with Canada. Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. Supreme Court is a yes on age checks for porn sites. President Trump celebrates a 'giant' Supreme Court win. Report an error