Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy, will go before a California parole board Friday, but for the first time there will be no opposition from prosecutors.
Sirhan Sirhan faces his 16th parole hearing Friday for fatally shooting U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and for the first time no prosecutor will be there to argue he should be kept behind bars.
“The role of a prosecutor and their access to information ends at sentencing,” Alex Bastian, special advisor to Gascón, said in a statement Thursday. “I can get very emotionally wrapped around my personal feelings someone that killed someone that I thought could have been an incredible president for this country,” Gascón said. “But that has no place in this process. Just like it doesn’t for the person nobody knows about.”She plans to argue that the board's decision should be based on who Sirhan is today and not about past events, which is what the board has based its parole denials on before.
The Parole Board would not say if the Kennedy family or anyone else submitted statements opposing Sirhan's release. Attempts to reach the Kennedy family for comment were unsuccessful. Just before the assassination, he drank coffee in a hotel pantry with a woman to whom he was attracted. The next thing he has said he remembered was being choked and unable to breathe as he was taken into custody. At his 2016 hearing, he said he felt remorse for any crime victim but couldn’t take responsibility for the shooting.
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