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Board Rejects Clemency Application for Barry Beach
HELENA, Mont. -
Montana's parole board has rejected a clemency application from Barry Beach, meaning he will continue serving his prison sentence for a 1979 slaying.
The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole announced Wednesday it was denying Beach's fourth clemency application since 1994.
The Poplar man is serving a 100-year sentence for the beating death of high-school classmate Kim Nees.
He was released for 18 months after a judge ordered a new trial, but the Montana Supreme Court sent him back to prison last year.
The parole board accepts clemency applications if an inmate can prove a substantial change of circumstances has occurred in his case.
Beach argued in his new application that he showed model behavior while free. He also cited a U.S. Supreme Court decision that juvenile offenders can change.
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