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California panel rejects parole again for Robert Kennedy assassin

Sirhan Sirhan's parole hearing in 1997. He has has attended 16 parole hearings in total [Reuters]

A panel in the United States has denied parole for Robert Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, saying the 78-year-old prisoner still lacks insight into what caused him to shoot the senator and presidential candidate in 1968.

Sirhan’s lawyer Angela Berry disputed that assertion, saying Sirhan has shown that awareness and that his psychiatrists have said for decades that he is unlikely to re-offend or be a danger to society.

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