Robert Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan granted parole by California board

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  1. Turtledude

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    putting a 77 year old pariah on the streets might well be harsher than letting the mope die in prison
     
  2. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You’re dismissing the shooters of Kennedy and Reagan who now walk free. Also, don’t forget the not guilty verdicts of Simpson and Michael Jackson.
     
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    Agreed...

    It seems like more trouble that it is worth...
     
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    If either the victim ( Kennedy) or the perpetrator ( simpson) is a celebrity, the publicity of the trial ends up with both becoming celebrities. One becomes more famous, the other becomes infamous. 'Doing life' in prison is about a combination of circumstances, not one. The original sentence, ones behavior, how one's conduct is perceived in prison ( good boy or naughty boy), what gets documented in your record, who sits on the parole board, your counselor, your pastor and what they say at the hearing, how the local media cover your crime, whether the family or victim show up at the hearing and what they say, , and of course your health and life expectancy, Some folks end up dead in 5 years, others live to be 89. Some have two parole hearings and two chances. Others have five bites at the parole apple.
     
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    Hi, Straight ahead, here is another website...

    https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-robert-f-kennedy/

    from which I quote:
    Because I have an ad blocker, the site won't let me click on "second shooter". You could try it and see what it says there.
     
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    I dismiss Simpson and Jackson because they were released after they were found not guilty. I am not commenting on how jurors react to testimony at trial
    No I am not dismissing those shooters. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent 35 years in confinement in a mental hospital and was released in 2016. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37328612

    "US District Judge Paul Friedman's judgement points to medical assessments which showed that Mr Hinckley had had "no symptoms of active mental illness" since 1983. "

    I would argue that there was a reason it took from 1983 all the way to 2016 for all those medical reports of an asymptomatic patient to be have a real impact on his release date. Might not have taken over 30 years to get around to reading those reports, if he had not shot the President and a press secretary.

    On Kennedy I ask the same basic question. How long would this take if there was no notoriety to the crime?
     
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    Convicted criminals denying their guilt is typical. He was soundly convicted and commited the crime. We do know who killed JFK and it was in fact Oswald who acted alone.

    You are quite wrong Oswald was proven to be the shooter by a mountain of evidence and all of gthe conspiracy theories have been disproven.
     
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    I doubt the timing of this pardon for Robert F Kennedy's murderer is a "coincidence"... it might even be a warning to his son, Robert F Kennedy Jr!

    Robert F Kennedy Jr's new book will be released soon.

    The Real Anthony Fauci - by Robert F Kennedy Jr.

    In my latest book — “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” — I take an in-depth look at the disastrous consequences of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s 50-year reign as America’s public health czar. The book, which will be released Nov. 9, is available now for pre-order.

    more at link

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/robert-f-kennedy-jr-book-the-real-anthony-fauci/
     
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    I know I'd be more convinced of this conspiracy, if its adherents could agree on who the actual conspirators were. Was it the mafia and Jimmy Hoffa, Fidel Castro and the Russians, LBJ and J edgar Hoover, the CIA, the Black Panthers or was it Jackie all pissed about Marilyn Monroe?

    Enquiring minds want to know who the hell is writing this narrative full of 'hidden facts' and buried truths and replacing someone else's bad guys with their own favorite bad guys so that someone else can write another tome with yet a third of fourth set.

    Nobody really believes in Doctor Who, because its never the same Doctor Who for more than three seasons.
     
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    You left out the free masons, the boy scouts and Alan Hale Jr. ( the skipper from Gilligans Isle )

    Not really sarcasm as all of them have been " proven " to be the ones who killed Kennedy by various conspiracy theorists.
     
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    Sirhan was the patsy in the classic sense if the word. He definitely did not fire the shot which killed Senator Kennedy.Well respected LA Coroner Thomas Noguchi who did the autopsy on RFK proved beyond a doubt that the shot that killed Kennedy came from behind him and was fired at point blank range. Sirhan never got into that position. The RFK assassination was a CIA hit. Anyone who has looked into it knows that damn well. Sirhan has been locked up for over 50 years for a crime he did not commit. Let the old guy out already.
     
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    I think Chauvin should have been convicted of manslaughter at best and got too long a sentence. Roof is a moron and should be treated accordingly.
     
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    9 minutes seemed like murder to me, imagine if a criminal did the exact same thing to a cop.... while handcuffed
     
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    oh, I thought you meant like tv celebrities, I get what you mean, infamous cases
     
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    Not really respected at all.

    https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19690514.2.94&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

    Hardly a credible source. The go gto bad guy of the CIA is something one invokes when one has seen too many movies.
     
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    Nothing. The victim hasn't said a word since 6/6/1968
     
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    Actually, it is my experience with the English language that allows me to know there is a difference between a pardon and parole.
     
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    The article linked to the OP stated that his sentence was commuted to life in prison when Cali did away with the death penalty.
     
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    Still no good reason to not be LWOP (lifewithoutparole)
     
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    It is Cali, what can we expect.
     
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    Whatever makes the least
    sense mostly! lol
     
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    The evidence proves JFK was killed by Oswald and no one else.

    RFK by Sirhan.

    MLK by Chapman.

    Which kennedy family members do you agree with? Many disagree with letting Sirhan out.
     
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    It was just my opinion.
     
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    The Magic Bullet theory keeps people doubting it was Oswald who killed Kennedy. But that is for another thread.
     
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    True but most ignore that the magic bullet theory has been soundly debunked and proven false. Like all of the evidence invented to support conspiracy theories.
     
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