DON’T PAROLE JILL’S KILLER, COUNTY ASKS – All Otsego

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DON'T PAROLE

JILL'S KILLER,

COUNTY ASKS

With One Abstention, One Nay, Reps

Petition Parole Board, Back Seward's Bill

County Rep. Dan Wilber, R-Burlington, makes a motion to urge the state Parole Board not to grant parole to David Dart, convicted in the 1989 slaying in Oneonta's parking deck. In the foreground is Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – With board Vice Chairman Gary Koutnik abstaining, and another Democrat voting nay, the county Board of Representatives today asked the state Parole Board "to deny the release, conditional or otherwise," of David Dart, convicted of slaying 18-year-old Jill Gibbons with a "Rambo-style knife" in the Oneonta Municipal Parking Garage in 1989.

The resolution, passed 12-1-1, also put the county board on record supporting a bill, S4354, introduced several times by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, to increase the time between parole hearing for "violent crimes" from two to five years.

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