Brown's rejection issued late Friday night is the fifth time Davis has been recommended for parole by a state panel only to see it blocked by a governor, and continues Brown's unflinching pattern of refusing to allow anyone from Manson's "family" to be freed. On Feb. 1, the parole panel recommended release for the 74-year-old Davis, who is serving a life sentence for the 1969 slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea. [...] Brown added "his continued minimization of his own violence and his role in the Manson Family further shows that he remains an unreasonable risk to the public." During the half-century since the slayings, parole panels decided five times that Davis is no longer a public safety risk.