A convicted killer and two-time “Three Strikes, You’re Out” offender in southwest Washington is now eligible to be freed from prison in as few as five years after a Clark County court was forced by the state Legislature to re-sentence him.
Roy Wayne Russell, Jr., 62, has twice beaten a life sentence – one of them for the 2005 murder of Chelsea Harrison, 14. Russell admits he suffocated Chelsea – but after legislative Democrats and Gov. Jay Inslee changed the state’s three-strikes law in 2019, Russell’s original life sentence was vacated.
Former Clark County prosecutor Jim Senescu, who successfully tried Russell in Chelsea’s murder, told Friday’s Dori Monson Show
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