Full parole board to hear case of convicted felon Sheldon Jackson
The Ohio Parole Board has scheduled a full board hearing regarding inmate Sheldon Jackson’s release on parole which this office strongly opposes.
Jackson, 52, has been in prison for 29 years and three months after being convicted of aggravated murder with aggravated circumstances, attempted murder, burglary, aggravated robbery and robbery in the 1993 home invasion of a Jefferson Street SW couple which resulted in the death of 78-year-old Theodore Emerson of Warren.
When is Sheldon Jackson’s hearing?
Jackson will have a hearing before the full parole board in Columbus at 11 a.m. Oct. 18.
On April 20, 2023, and in 2013, Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins wrote letters to the Board opposing any release on parole of Jackson because of the horrific violence inflicted on the elderly couple in their Warren home.
As an update, attorney Charles Morrow, Chief of Criminal Division and Project Director of the Prosecutor’s Office new Repeat Violent Offender Unit, has been assigned to present the state’s case against parole at Jackson’s hearing on Oct. 18.
Citing Jackson’s violations of six additional prison regulations between 2013 and 2020, Watkins noted that “violent offenders like Sheldon Jackson who are eligible for release on parole should wisely be denied release when administrative rules and guidelines as applied under the totality of circumstances establish good cause to believe that it is in the public interest, and the safety of the community, to continue an inmate’s imprisonment.”
What crime was Sheldon Jackson convicted of?
Briefly to summarize the case, Jackson repeatedly struck 78-year-old Theodore Emerson with a screwdriver during the 1993 home invasion, beating and kicking the victim, which ultimately led to his death.
Jackson and his two co-defendants had forced their way into the Jefferson Street SW home in Warren, knocked Emerson into the basement, where Jackson and another man followed Theodore into the basement and severely beat him. A third man went upstairs and beat and stabbed 74-year-old Kathryn Emerson. Some personal items and $46 in cash were stolen during the home invasion. Mrs. Emerson was hospitalized a little less than two weeks in critical condition. After the home invasion, she moved out of her house to Pennsylvania, where she died. Mrs. Emerson was unable to testify because of her injuries.
On that same day prior to the home invasion, Jackson and his two co-defendants had attacked another couple on the street, robbing them of money. The three assailants were later seen on a porch across the street from where the home invasion occurred , eating McDonald’s food and drinking beer, presumably paid for with money stolen during the attacks,.
To avoid the death penalty, Jackson appeared before a three-judge panel and pleaded guilty to all the charges.
Public comments about this case can be forwarded to the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, via their website.
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