On Thursday, Mutulu Shakur, the imprisoned stepfather of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, could become a free man after serving half of his 60-year sentence for orchestrating a string of deadly armed robberies in New York and Connecticut during the 1980s in which three people were killed. U.S. Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr tells People that Shakur, 65, is eligible for mandatory parole and is scheduled to appear before the parole board at the federal penitentiary in Victorville, California, on April 7. Shakur, who was sentenced in 1988, had previous parole hearings in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012, and 2014, according to Carr. The crimes Shakur is alleged to...
- 4/4/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
On Thursday, Mutulu Shakur, the imprisoned stepfather of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, could become a free man after serving half of his 60-year sentence for orchestrating a string of deadly armed robberies in New York and Connecticut during the 1980s in which three people were killed. U.S. Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr tells People that Shakur, 65, is eligible for mandatory parole and is scheduled to appear before the parole board at the federal penitentiary in Victorville, California, on April 7. Shakur, who was sentenced in 1988, had previous parole hearings in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012, and 2014, according to Carr. The crimes Shakur is alleged to...
- 4/4/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
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