No Surprise: LA Prosecutor Gascón Not Opposing Parole for Robert F. Kennedy Assassin Sirhan Sirhan
“Sirhan, who is now 77, has remained in prison for 53 years.”
Sirhan Sirhan is the man who shot Robert F. Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy, in 1968. RFK died the day after the shooting. Sirhan was tried and sentenced to death.
Years later, Sirhan’s sentence was commuted to life in prison. Now he is going before the parole board for the 16th time and Los Angeles prosecutor George Gascón is not going to oppose.
If Lee Harvey Oswald was still alive, would he be eligible for parole too?
Celine Castronuovo reports at The Hill:
Prosecutors for first time not opposing parole for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan
Los Angeles prosecutors for the first time have decided not to oppose the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) in 1968.
The Washington Post reported that Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s office is remaining neutral in the case and will not be present at Sirhan’s parole hearing on Friday.
While prosecutors had opposed Sirhan’s release in 15 previous parole hearings, Gascón upon taking on his role in December 2020 said his office’s “default policy” would be to not attend parole hearings and to instead work to submit letters in support of inmates who have served mandatory minimums and no longer pose a threat to society.
The Post noted, though, that the district attorney’s office was looking to be completely impartial in Sirhan’s case and would not be submitting a letter in support of his parole.
Sirhan, who is now 77, has remained in prison for 53 years.
Nathan Place of the Independent has a comment from an adviser to Gascón:
“The role of a prosecutor and their access to information ends at sentencing,” Alex Bastian, an adviser to District Attorney George Gascon, told the Post. “If someone is the same person that committed an atrocious crime, that person will correctly not be found suitable for release. However, if someone is no longer a threat to public safety after having served more than 50 years in prison, then the parole board may recommend release based on an objective determination.”
This is just baffling. Are Democrats OK with this?
This isn’t someone who robbed a bank. He shot and killed a United States senator and was sentenced to death.
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of Robert F. Kennedy assassination, seeks parole with no opposition from prosecutors https://t.co/QIYd65TM21
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 25, 2021
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Regardless of the prosecutor’s attitude, NO California parole board would let Sirhan out.
The Kennedy family has a say in this and I doubt parole is in their minds.
Actually the Kennedy family has said they are Ok with him being released
Two of the eight kids have.
This is California. I would not bet against it.
Subotai Bahadur
If a far-left, woke Democrat DA wants to release a guy who shot a liberal Democrat presidential candidate, I say… I’ll have to circle back to you on that one.
I’ll get slammed for this but, from what I remember about RFK, Sirhan may have done us all a favor.
Gascon aside, there are more than a few people who believe Sirhan Sirhan didn’t kill RFK … including RFK, Jr.
I listened to the “The RFK Tapes” podcast on a crosscountry drive a couple of years ago. A TOTAL waste of time. There were over 70 people in and around the pantry in which RFK was murdered. No one present had any doubt that Sirhan was the lone gunman.
RFK junior also thought his cousin Michael Skakel didn’t murder Martha Moxley. RFK junior is a conspiracy kook.
Sirhan for Congress!
Please do not prophesize here.
Maybe Sirhan can get together with Chesa, and his newly freed daddy, and they can have a collective work accident together.
Is that phrase still a shorthand for “jihadi victim,” like it was in the Obama administration?
He should have been put to death in the gas chamber as California law provided at the time.
The kicker being that Sirhan killed Kennedy for his support over Israel. 🇮🇱
Killer antisemites get to go home. Just like in Germany.
It would really be terrible if gascon got hit by a bus. Or ten.
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And he will not be deported.