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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral convicted of attempting to termination a authorities authoritative wrong a Tulare County courthouse successful the 90s was denied parole, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office announced Monday.
On May 4, 1991, the DA states Harry Bodine, present 79, entered a Visalia courtroom with a briefcase. While tribunal was successful session, Bodine stood up and fired a azygous changeable from a .357 revolver astatine the justice seated astatine the bench.
The slug missed, and Bodine was instantly taken into custody. Court records uncover Bodine pulled the trigger due to the fact that helium was upset astatine the judge's determination to let a suspect probation if she utilized a commencement power implant. Bodine had nary transportation to anyone progressive successful the case.
In 1992, the DA says Bodine was convicted by a assemblage of attempted execution of a authorities official, attempted murder, possession of a limb successful a courtroom, and second-degree burglary. He was yet sentenced to 18 years to life.
In July 2021, the DA states a parole committee recovered Boudine suitable for release, however, prosecutors appealed to the governor's office, which past moved the uncovering to the afloat California parole committee for review. Bodine was yet denied parole successful 2022.
At Bodine's seventh parole proceeding connected May 29, 2025, tribunal officials accidental parole commissioners noted Bodine showed constricted consciousness of the seriousness of the transgression and that helium remains a information to the public.
As a effect of that hearing, the DA states prosecutors secured a three-year denial of parole for 79-year-old Harry Bodine of Visalia.
