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July 1, 2009

Several area inmates denied parole

By BOB GIBBINS



OKLAHOMA CITY – Two men serving prison sentences for convictions in Cherokee County were denied parole in June by the state’s Pardon and Parole Board.

Robert L. Cody and Wayne Andrew Skinner lost their clemency bids. Cody is serving consecutive sentences for a 1993 conviction on injury of a minor child and sodomy charges. Department of Corrections records show he is not scheduled for release until 2041.

Skinner is serving his sentences for false declaration of ownership, forgery and uttering a forged instrument. His tentative release date is in 2012. He started his time in July 2007.

Four inmates were denied parole from Sequoyah County. They are Jeffery Lee McGehee, Christopher Ray Placker, Michael D. Walker and Timothy Wade Ward. McGehee is serving a sentence on drug possession charges while Placker is being held on a domestic abuse by strangulation count.

Walker’s 50-year sentence is for first-degree rape and Ward is serving a sentence for drug possession and failing to register as a sex offender.

William Edward Dority received a favorable nod from the board and was serving a sentence for drug and firearms charges.

The docket shows Shawn D. Chase, Lacy Lynn Green and Heather Regina Holland were denied parole on Wagoner County cases. Chase is serving life for a first-degree murder charge filed in 1995.

Green is tentatively set for release next year on a conviction for publishing counterfeit instruments and Holland is serving a sentence for shooting with intent to kill and other charges.

James Edward Harris Jr. and Joseph Wright were approved for parole on Wagoner County cases, the docket shows. Harris was convicted for assault and battery on a police officer and placing bodily fluid on a police officer. Wright was serving his sentence for a charge that was amended to accessory to first-degree murder.

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