Posted on 08/25/2021 4:48:47 PM PDT by KingofZion
Sirhan B. Sirhan, convicted of the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, will face a California parole board for the 16th time Friday in a prison outside San Diego. But unlike the first 15 times, no prosecutor will stand to oppose the release of Sirhan, who is now 77.
Sirhan was arrested at the scene of Kennedy’s shooting in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the slaying of a U.S. senator who appeared headed for the Democratic presidential nomination.
*** When California abolished the death penalty, Sirhan’s sentence was reduced to life with the possibility of parole. And now Sirhan, who has been incarcerated for 53 years, may benefit from a new push among progressive prosecutors to seek the release, or not oppose the release, of convicts who have served decades behind bars, no longer pose a threat to society and will be costly to treat medically in their later years.
Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón told The Washington Post shortly before his inauguration in December that he was creating a sentencing review unit to revisit the cases of about 20,000 prisoners for possible resentencing, analyzing both the fairness of long sentences and the cost savings for releasing low-risk or older inmates.***
In Sirhan’s case, Gascón’s office is remaining neutral. The office said it will not attend the parole hearing, as Los Angeles prosecutors have done historically, but it also will not send a letter in support of Sirhan’s parole.
*** Kennedy is survived by his wife, Ethel Kennedy, and nine children, many of whom declined to comment. The family has not submitted any letters taking a position on Sirhan’s parole and have not requested to speak at Friday’s hearing.
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Was this PLO Nut Job here to kill him because his brother Teddy Ram thru that Radical Left Wing Immigration Bill. in the 1960s that has destroyed this country because white people stopped voting for the future Commie party .
Where are his kids to stop this ?
Where is his wife ?
Are these Kennedy so nuts they want this guy loose on the world.
Who took this photo ?
How did a foreigner buy a gun in 1968 ?
This guy is 77 years old and has been in prison over 50 years. Where would he go if he got out and to who? This guy knows nothing of the outside world, all her knows is the regimen of prison and nothing else. He would be lost outside and probably would commit suicide at some point like the guy in Shawshank.
The only world this guy knows is prison and he should stay there. Of course if some bleeding heart would like to take him and in and be totally responsible for him, then go right ahead. I would love to see that. But no one wants to be responsible for this guy unless he is sent back to Palestine, and would they even want him?
Plenty of murderers have gotten much shorter sentences than Sirhan, his is a political crime.
Muslims killing whitey back then .
And we are letting the 125,000 of the most barbaric Muslims in the world into the. USA with no vetting !
Its time to leave the USA .
This guy is 77 years old and has been in prison over 50 years. Where would he go if he got out and to who?
Where did you get the idea RFK was any kind of Conservative, he was more Liberal than Teddy, if possible. He would have been a hard core disaster as President. The Far Left was already taking over the DNC and party by 1972, read up on the convention that year, they took over completely.
Possibly, but it would not end well, as he is a committed Muslim
I think that was a newspaper photographer. Not sure.
How did Sirhan know that RFK was going to take a shortcut through the kitchen while walking from one ballroom to the other, instead of walking down the hallway connecting the two ballrooms at the Ambassador Hotel?
And is there any truth to the existence of the woman in the polka dot dress?
A witness claims to have seen a woman in a polka dot dressing shouting, “We shot him!”
The witness asked the woman, “Who did you shoot?”
“President Kennedy.” Then she corrected herself and said, “I mean Senator Kennedy.”
You can count on that. Most kids coming out of high school can’t even read or write let alone know their history.
He was against welfare, for opportunity zones, and tough on crime. Nixon won, and really harmed the country with his economic policy.
RFK was as rotten as his two brothers.
He was not pretty much regarded, he was thought to be unqualified for AG. A family appointment.
He sure surprised Ethel with his Marilyn doings!
Or, did he?
Sorry RFK was a Liberal’s Liberal and that is a fact. JFK was the most Conservative and maybe had he lived he might have won a 2nd term and possibly we would not have been deep in the mire of Vietnam. Who Knows.
He can go live at Barack & Michele’s. I hear they have lots of room at their estate in Martha’s Vinyard.
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Maybe he can whack some MORE Demi-Krats?
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