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Dick Durbin: “He's [Leonard Pelletier] 80 years old, and he was sentenced…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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… man that point blank range fired a shotgun into their heads and murdered them released from prison. So it goes. Both Ways. Leonard Pelletier was in prison for 45 years. He's [Leonard Pelletier] 80 years old, and he was sentenced to home confinement. So he's not free, as you might have just suggested. He killed two FBI agents that don't sent him. That's true. He did. And he went to prison for it and should have. (00:30–03:14)

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Asserts that Leonard Pelletier, aged 80, was sentenced to home confinement.

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