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The State - News from July 25, 1985

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The former Stanford mathematics graduate student who beat his professor to death with a hammer is balking at a mandated Sept. 8 release date and wants to stay in prison for another year. In an interview at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, published in the Peninsula Times Tribune, Theodore Streleski said he is reluctant to go free because he fears harassment by law enforcement officials. But Vacaville spokesman Lt. Joe McGrath said the release date for the 49-year-old Streleski has been set by the law specifying an eight-year term for his second-degree murder of professor Karel DeLeeuw in 1978, and by state rules cutting one-third of inmates’ terms for good behavior. Three times in the last 18 months Streleski has turned down parole offers, refusing to comply with requirements that he live in Orange County, stay away from Stanford and be supervised by a parole agent.

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