. >> reporter: lori frin contractor french and his good friend, they still can't believe le monte mimse of the two murder suspects was mistakenly released five days before the shooting. the city's pretrial diversion project uses a form with nine questions to assess whether one should be released or go to jail of an arrest. mims was to be arraigned on firearms charges on july 11th. the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney met with pretrial diverse staffers who showed their their risk assessment store for mims. question, did mims have a prior sentence for which he served time? response, no the correct answer should have been yes. he had served three months for violating probation on a felony burglary conviction in san mateo. relying on the accuracy of the assessment, the judge released mims with certain conditions, five days later, the murder of movie scout ed french at twin peaks. >> ed was essentially ambushed and killed for a camera over a one-popt error on a math test. >> reporter: they're angry at the prosecutor and the illegal process. >> nobody opposed it. that's thank you, d. a