Chicago prosecutor drops opposition to parole for convicted cop killer
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Chicago’s top prosecutor has dropped her opposition to parole for a man convicted of killing a police officer and shooting another during a traffic stop in the late 1960s.
Hurst was convicted of killing a city police officer in 1967 and originally sentenced to death in the electric chair. After the U.S. Supreme Court halted capital punishment in 1972, he received a new sentence of 100 to 300 years in prison. Foxx did not immediately explain her reversal. In a statement to the Chicago Sun-Times, she said her office’s "lack of opposition should not be construed as a show of support but rather the office’s position that we would no longer actively object."
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