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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than a half-century after a Louisiana teen was sent to prison for killing a sheriff’s deputy and nearly a year after the nation’s highest court ruled in his favor, the now 71-year-old inmate will have to wait up to two months longer for his first chance at parole.
Louisiana’s parole board on Thursday postponed its scheduled hearing for Henry Montgomery, who was 17 when he shot and killed East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy Charles Hurt in 1963. Jim Wise, vice-chairman of the Louisiana Board of Pardons and Committee on Parole, said the board needs a legal opinion from Louisiana’s attorney general to resolve an apparent conflict between two laws governing parole hearings: One says a three-member panel must decide parole for juvenile offenders, while another says anyone convicted of crimes against a law enforcement officer must face a panel of five members or more. Continue reading “Louisiana delays parole hearing for 71-year-old inmate”