Jul 27, 2021 / 05:13 AM CDT
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – In over seven years, the family of former Tennessee State Rep. Mike Locke has started three petitions, all with one goal: to keep the drunk driver who killed their loved one behind bars.
In 2014, Rep. Locke was killed on a stretch of road in Colonial Heights by James Hamm Jr. who was driving while intoxicated. For the third time since his conviction, Hamm is asking to be released, and for the third time, Locke’s family is circulating a petition to stop that from happening.
“This is actually the third petition that I’ve done. He comes up for parole, every other year, about six to eight months after sentencing he asked for a new trial. And at that time it just set my mind to thinking, ‘What should I do to make sure that he serves his time that he was given?’ And so we came up with the idea of a petition,” Debbie Locke, Mike Locke’s widow, told News Channel 11.
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