Sirhan Sirhan To Go In Front Of Parole Board

I watched a documentary on the history channel once about Bobby Kennedy and was so moved and then I saw this name pop up in the search engines today.

Sirhan B. Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, will appear before a California parole board for the first time in at least nine years on Wednesday, supported by two psychologists' reports saying he no longer poses a threat to society, his attorney said.

And in what a prosecutor and Sirhan's attorney say will be an extraordinary appearance, one of the surviving shooting victims in the 1968 assassination, retired TV journalist William Weisel, said he would tell the parole panel that he won't object to Sirhan's release if the board OKs it.

Even so, the release of Sirhan, 66, now serving a life sentence, is a long shot, with only about 10% of California's life-sentenced convicts being granted parole, said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney David Dahle, who added that he plans to oppose Sirhan's release at Wednesday's hearing.

via CNN