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Sirhan did not attend the hearing at Corcoran State Prison or appoint a lawyer to represent him before the parole board. His longtime attorney, Lawrence Teeter, died last year after numerous failed attempts to get his client a new trial.

Sirhan also did not appear at his last hearing, in 2003. These periodical hearings are guaranteed by law, and come up automatically, without the inmate having to request them. His next parole hearing will be in 2011.

Sirhan shot the New York senator in the narrow pantry of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, soon after Kennedy claimed victory in the California presidential primary.

Sirhan blurted out in court that he killed the senator ''premeditatedly with 20 years of malice aforethought,'' but later insisted he did not remember the incident.

Against the wishes of the Kennedy family, the Los Angeles School District spared parts of the pantry from demolition, including an ice machine, the door to a closet, and some ceiling lights.

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