- 1945 Jim Gordon, American drummer and studio musician (Derek and the Dominos), born in Los Angeles, California [1]
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Murder of mother, conviction and incarceration[edit]
On June 3, 1983, Gordon attacked his 72-year-old mother, Osa Marie Gordon, with a
hammer before fatally stabbing her with a
butcher knife; he claimed that a voice told him to kill her.
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Only after his arrest for murder was Gordon properly diagnosed with
schizophrenia. At his trial, the court accepted that he had acute schizophrenia, but he was not allowed to use an
insanity defense because of changes to California law due to the
Insanity Defense Reform Act.
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On July 10, 1984, Gordon was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison.
[12] He was first eligible for parole in 1991, but parole has been denied several times as he has never attended a parole hearing. In 2014, he declined to attend his hearing and was denied parole until at least 2018. A Los Angeles deputy district attorney stated at the hearing that he was still "seriously psychologically incapacitated" and "a danger when he is not taking his medication".
[13] In November 2017, Gordon was rediagnosed with schizophrenia. On March 7, 2018, Gordon was denied parole for the tenth time and is tentatively scheduled to become eligible again in March 2021.
[14] As of 2020, he is serving his sentence at the
California Medical Facility, a medical and psychiatric prison in
Vacaville, California.
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