The state parole board ruled last week against 43-year-old Jose Humberto Marin, who is being imprisoned for the 1998 shooting of Michael Arreguin in Napa.
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Jarad Nava, sentenced to 162 years in prison for a crime he committed when he was 17, has a second chance in life and is now working for an influential committee of the California Senate.