SC: Murderer of gay man could be out in 8 months
by: Pam Spaulding
Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=01AADDA15D6EFCCED422C3BC7571BE4E?diaryId=8930Sean Kennedy, a young gay man in South Carolina was brutally murdered in SC in 2007 (a state with no hate crimes law). After Sean's death his mother Elke Kennedy founded Sean's Last Wish, and she has toured the nation to recount the tragic murder and to educate people about the need for federal hate crimes legislation. Here is what happened to Sean...
But if losing her son isn't bad enough, her son's killer, Stephen Andrew Moller, could be out of prison as early as February on an early parole.
Moller was plea bargained down to involuntary manslaughter and received a suspended 5 year sentence for his crime. Because of the credit he received for time he served before his sentencing, the longest possible time he will have to serve in prison is until September 2009. Despite the violence of his crime, he could be eligible for parole by this coming February, meaning that he will have served only 8 months since his sentencing in prison.
