I can't remember doing it, so please set me free now:
More than four decades after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his convicted murderer wants to go free for a crime he says he can't remember.
It is not old age or some memory-snatching disease that has erased an act Sirhan Bishara Sirhan once said he committed "with 20 years of malice aforethought." It's been this way almost from the beginning. Hypnotists and psychologists, lawyers and investigators have tried to jog his memory with no useful result.
Now a new lawyer is on the case and he says his efforts have also failed.
"There is no doubt he does not remember the critical events," said William F. Pepper, the attorney who will argue for Sirhan's parole Wednesday. "He is not feigning it. It's not an act. He does not remember it."
Quite the brass ones, huh? I could make use of this defense myself. I remember hardly anything from 1980, so maybe I didn't even work that year, and the IRS should send me all the money it took from me. Pepper is the one with true audacity. He's the same lawyer who represented James Earl Ray and said he was innocent. He now claims Sirhan Sirhan isn't guilty, either, and he knows who is but won't say.
