by KYW's Tony Hanson
Seven of the nine Move members who were convicted of killing police officer James Ramp and wounding several other police and firefighters in the 1978 confrontation, are now up for parole.
The private individual interviews are winding down and the first decisions should be announced in the next two weeks or so.
They were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison and they've done the minimum. But retired officer Thomas Hesson, who was shot in the chest, through the heart, as he ran to the aid of the fatally wounded officer, says the Move members should not be released:
"Jimmy Ramp can't come back. They should never get out. The judge said 30 to 100. Well they should spend 100."
DA Lynne Abraham also opposes the release:
"Frankly, they should serve as much time as possible, consistent with their lack of remorse, lack of rehabilitation, lack of acknowledging that they did in fact murder a police officer."
But defense attorney Paul Hetznecker, who represented the Move members during appeals, says they have paid their debt to society:
"The past is the past. What we have to look at now is the recent past and see whether or not they can be functioning members of society and they certainly can."
Nine Move members were convicted. One died in prison. Another will be up for parole later.
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