Confessed Murderer May Stay Behind Bars After Challenge
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state attorney general`s office agrees
that technical errors were made when Governor Huckabee granted
clemency for a confessed killer.
Those errors void Don Jeffers` eligibility for parole and leave
a prosecutor who sued Huckabee over the issue claiming victory. A
Huckabee spokesman indicated the governor could start the process
over again.
Huckabee was sued by Saline County Prosecutor Robert Herzfeld
and Brandie Jones, granddaughter of the man Jeffers admitted
killing.
They argued, in part, that Huckabee and the Post Prison Transfer
Board did NOT follow procedure in granting clemency.
In a letter to Herzfeld, Deputy Attorney General Wendy Kelley
says it is clear that not all procedures were followed.
Jeffers, age 55, is serving a life sentence for the 1980
bludgeoning death of William Hash. Clemency made him eligible for
parole.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
