| For Immediate Release November 7, 2011 | Susan Kang Schroeder Chief of Staff Office: 714-347-8408 Cell: 714-292-2718 Farrah Emami |
MEDIA ADVISORY
WHO: The Board of Parole Hearings, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
WHAT: Postponed Gary Eccher’s parole hearing for six months pending the outcome of a Fourth District Court of Appeal decision regarding the letter Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas wrote to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. opposing the inmate’s parole. Eccher was convicted by a jury July 11, 1986, of first degree murder. Eccher was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison Aug. 8, 1986, after the court reduced his conviction to second degree murder. The victim’s sister appeared at the hearing and opposed Eccher’s parole on record.
WHEN: Today, Nov. 7, 2011
WHERE: Avenal State Prison, Avenal, CA
For further information, please select the Nov. 4, 2011, press release titled “OCDA to Oppose Parole of Man Convicted of 1985 Beating-Murder of Live-In Girlfriend,” under Press Releases/Media Advisories at www.orangecountyda.com.
To read the letter, please visit www.orangecountyda.com and click on the “DA Office” tab-down menu, select Reports, and click on the “Parole Opposition Letter to Governor Brown Regarding Inmate Gary Eccher.”
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