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UTAH STATE PRISON Bret Lee Etterlein is 62 years old. He has spent two-thirds of his life in prison.
At one point, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole voted that Etterlein should serve out the rest of his life sentence in the Utah State Prison for murdering his mother.
But after being in prison since 1981, and not having a single disciplinary write-up in the past 24 years, the board recently agreed to give him another hearing to reconsider whether he should be paroled. I m 62 years old, I m not a child. I ve grown up, I m a man now. I m not a person who has to be watched over his shoulder, you know, to do right to do what s correct. I do that myself. And that s what I m supposed to do, he told the board in a recording of his hearing on April 27.