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By PATRICK WILSON AND MARK BOWES Richmond Times-Dispatch RICHMOND — Two state senators want a select committee formed to investigate “serious damaging allegations” of wrongdoing by the Virginia Parole Board following a revelation this week of new documents related to how the board handled the release of a man who killed a Richmond police officer in 1979. WTVR-TV in Richmond reported Tuesday on the previously unreleased records from the Office of the State Inspector General, the watchdog agency that found last year that the parole board and its former chairwoman viol...

SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE | Associated Press RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers demanded answers Wednesday from Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration and the state’s government watchdog agency following a news report that raised new questions about the state parole board’s handling of the case of a man convicted of killing a Richmond police officer. Richmond TV station WTVR reported Tuesday night that it had obtained a previously unreleased version of an investigative report produced by the Office of the State Inspector General into the case of Vincent Martin. Ma...

Report details violations made granting parole to a man who killed a Richmond Police Officer and last updated 2021-02-25 15:13:06-05 RICHMOND, Va. -- An Inspector General report on the Vincent Martin case released in July 2020 was six pages long. Initially, that version was heavily redacted, with more text blacked out than was legible. CBS 6 Problem Solvers investigators have now learned the report was heavily edited as well, and was less than half its original length. The CBS 6 Problem Solvers have since obtained that original 13-page long report. That report is loaded with details about vio...