STATE : Parole Denied Schools Supt. Slayer
CORCORAN, Calif. — A state prison board today denied parole for Joseph Remiro, a notorious member of the Symbionese Liberation Army who is serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of Marcus Foster, Oakland schools superintendent.
The three-member panel refused to set a parole date on grounds that Remiro “would pose an unreasonable risk if given a projected parole date at this time.”
The prisoner chose not to attend the hearing and refused to confer with his state-appointed attorney prior to the hearing.
Remiro, 42, and SLA companion Russell Little were convicted of murdering Foster and of the attempted murder of Oakland’s associate superintendent, Robert Blackburn, on Nov. 6, 1973. Little’s convictions later were overturned on appeal, and he was acquitted in a second trial.
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