A parole board hearing is scheduled for Charles Manson on Wednesday. Manson is currently serving a life prison term for seven homicides that are commonly known as the Tate-LaBianca murders.
The 72-year-old Manson is not expected to attend his parole board hearing, though a state-appointed attorney will be there, according to ***artment of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Bill Sessa.
Deborah Tate, sister of murdered actress Sharon Tate, is expected to attend the hearing. Crime victims have a constitutional right to present victim-impact statement at such hearings.
Manson has been denied parole 10 times in the past, receiving a "string of five-year denials" owing to the gravity of his crimes, Sessa said. Five years is the maximum period that can elapse in between parole board hearings for inmates serving life with the possibility of parole.
Wednesday's hearing will take place at Corcoran State Prison, where Manson is incarcerated in a protective housing unit with other high-profile inmates such Sirhan Sirhan and Juan Corona.
Charles Manson was the leader of the Manson family, a group born in San Francisco in the late 1960s. He instructed his followers to commit gruesome murders -- including the slayings of actress Sharon Tate, the then- pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, in addition to supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary.
Manson was initially sentenced to death in 1971, but his term was reduced to life in prison after the State Supreme Court of California eliminated the death penalty in February 1972.
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