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Julie Watson | Associated Press

Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, is denied parole by California board

Sirhan Sirhan, right, in June 1968. Sirhan was originally sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in 1972. (Associated Press)

SAN DIEGO — A California panel on Wednesday denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy 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, saying Sirhan has shown that awareness, and his psychiatrists have said for decades that he is unlikely to reoffend or be a danger to society.

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