#sentencing-and-parole

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1 day ago

Judge rejects further sentence reduction for San Jose killer formerly on death row

A judge rejected a settlement that would have made convicted murderer Erik Chatman parole-eligible by removing a torture special-circumstance conviction.
California
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

Baby Emmanuel's father sentenced to 25 years to life for murdering infant

Jake Haro was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for murdering his 7-month-old son and must serve additional time due to a probation violation, delaying parole eligibility.
fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

Australian judge sentences mushroom-killer Erin Patterson to life in prison

Patterson was convicted in July of murdering Don and Gail Patterson and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, with a lunch of beef Wellington laced with foraged death cap mushrooms. Patterson was also convicted of attempting to murder Heather's husband Ian Wilkinson, who spent weeks in a hospital. Not only did you cut short three lives and cause lasting damage to Ian Wilkinson's health, thereby devastating extended Patterson and Wilkinson families, you inflicted untold suffering on your own children, whom you robbed of their beloved grandparents
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