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I'm Tracy Smith in a rainy California you might be able to hear the rain on the roof hopefully you can still hear me
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so if you're a regular viewer of 48 Hours you know that we usually end our shows with the verdict and the family's
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reaction but this time we're going to try something a little different we're going to show you what happens long
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after the jurors have gone home we're going to talk about Parole in this case a man was convicted of murder and
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sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole and now more than 20 years have passed and he's up for
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parole so the question is should it be granted well here you have the victim's daughters who say absolutely not this
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guy should stay in prison and they're doing everything in their power to keep him there but for them that means going
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to parole hearings and they say it's like reliving their mother's murder over and over again every time they have to
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go to one of these hearings in a sense they say it's like they're serving a life sentence because they can never get
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Beyond this case they feel like it certainly wasn't over with the conviction this is still haunting them
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more than 20 years later on the other side you have a Man Behind Bars who we've spoken to who says listen parole
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is the law and not only that he's been a model prisoner and he says it's his time
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to get out that he served more than 20 years and now he deserves to be released so the question is when is enough
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punishment enough and how does the parole board decide it's a fascinating subject that we rarely look into and
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we're going to this week we hope you'll join us