Criminal
Oct. 29, 2021
Sirhan Sirhan killed a Kennedy. He should still go free.
Our country has built a system of mass incarceration in the decades since Sirhan was arrested. In 1969, the year he was convicted, the total state and federal prison population stood at less than 200,000 people. Today, that number is 1.4 million.
Matthew Barhoma
Founder
Barhoma Law
Matthew is a criminal appeals and corporate and business litigation attorney.
In 1968, Palestinian refugee Sirhan Sirhan gunned down presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in the crowded kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy who was himself assassinated in 1963, had built his campaign on his charismatic ability to unite an unlikely coalition of African-Americans, working class white people, farmers and Native Americans. If Robert F. Kennedy had gone on to win the Democratic n...
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