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    ‘TELEPHONE: 315) 40-3200 Fax: 315) 309.9212 PUBLIC SAFETY CENTER "38 CHURCHILLROAD Office of the District Attorney haere asstsran? eee ae srr arTomeys oiterassisran. DISTRICT ATTORNEY / CORONER RECT aromas KATHLEEN M. MACPHERSON ROBERT E. GENANT INVESTIGATOR ALLISON 4, O'NEILL THOMAS W. CHRISTOPHER ‘CHARLES H. CIESZESKI ‘April 18,2017 : ‘Wallkill Correctional Facility Supervising Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator 50 MeKendrick Road P.O. Box G Wallkill, New York 12589-0286 Re: Alan L, Jones ~ DIN 0983636 Dear Parole Board: Its my understanding that Alan Jones will be appearing before you for parole consideration in June ofthis year and lam writing to express the strongest possible opposition against his release. am respectfully asking that you please deny his application, as his served sentence does not begin to hold him accountable forthe horrendous nature of hs erime. (On August 29, 2008, Alan cones brutally strangled and killed his 1-year old stepsister, Erin Maxwell. As this board is surely aware, although a jury convicted him of Depraved Indifference “Marder, that conviction was reversed and reduced to Manslaughter 2nd on purely legal grounds, While tho tril evidence overwhelmingly established that Jones placed a rope around the young, girl's neck and tightened it antl he eaused the injuries that resulted in her death, the appellate ‘court held that his conduct didnot evince "depraved indifference” to human Tife, atleast at that ‘term has been interpreted by the Court of Appeals. ‘Throughout the ral, and even after the verdict, Jones refused to accept responsibility for his actions. He engaged in one of the worst forms of victim blaming, speculating that Erin placed ‘the rope around her own ne:k and had accidentally hanged herself while playing. He persisted in this claim even though it defied all of the forensic and medial evidence. Although I don't know whether he has since accepted responsibilty for Erin's death, i's my sense ‘that he would only acknowledge his conduct in order to gain favor with you. While the case was proseeated and ultimately tried by the District Attorney a the time, was the ‘on-

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