The parole board legal staff had until late December to review the ruling, and did not take any action to reconsider the ruling, according to Angela Berry, Sirhan’s lawyer. The case then moved to Newsom, who had 30 days to approve parole, reverse it or return it to the parole board. In 2019, his first year as governor, Newsom reversed 95 grants of parole and returned one to the parole board, according to annual reports his office has filed. In each of the last two years, he has reversed 33 paroles for murderers, including 17 prior to his recall election in September, which he won. There were no statistics available on how many murder paroles he approved.
