Freedom out for Sirhan?
NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles
Los Angeles city prosecutors will try to extend the prison term of Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, when it expires in three years, according to a spokesman for the prosecutors. The spokesman, Mr Al Albergate, said that a deputy district attorney was now trying to decide on. the best legal way to prevent Sirhan from being freed when his sentence expired in September, 1984.
Sirhan, aged 36, a Palestinian immigrant, was originally sentenced to death for shooting Senator Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel in 1968. The California Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that capital punishment was unconstitutional. Sirhan will have served 16 years in prison by the time he is due for release.
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Press, 30 May 1981, Page 9
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