Help, stop early parole!
More about Sean Kennedy can be found at SeansLastWish.org or on Wikipedia or on the Sean's Last Wish Blog
The following is a message sent to us by a friend who is close with Sean Kennedy's family. Please help Sean's family keep his murder in jail for taking Sean's life!

I got notified yesterday that they have scheduled a early parole hearing for Stephen Andrew Moller for Wednesday February 11th 2009.

In addition, I got informed that his final release date has been pulled forward from September 2009 to July 7th 2009 - he got two month credit for good behavior for pursuing his GED - Is that rehabilitation?

Please keep those letters to the parole board coming - they need to be there by January 23rd 2009 latest to be read.


Send letters to:

Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole Services
2221 Devine Street, Suite 600
PO Box 50666
Columbia, SC 29250

ASE: Stephen Andrew Moller
SCDC ID#00328891

Please send a copy of your letter to elke@seanslastwish.org
or mail to
PO Box 5697
Greenville, SC 29606
So Elke Kennedy (Sean's Mother) can take them with her to the parole board hearing.

A bit of background in short form.

Stephen Andrew Moller punched Sean Kennedy in the face and while doing so he called him a fag. Stephen Andrew Moller immediately left the scene, leaving Sean Kennedy on the ground. When Sean Kennedy hit the pavement as a result of the full fist punch his brain pushed into his brain stem. He never woke up. Shortly after the incident, a friend of Sean's got a text message telling her to tell her gay friend that he owed him $500 for breaking his hand.

Stephen Andrew Moller was not charged with a hate crime because NC does not have it on the law books. He is likely to served only EIGHT MONTHS for the crime. A letter to the parole board may help to convince them not to let him out via an early release.

We are all in this together and need to get letters to the parole board ASAP.

Thank you for your support!!!

(The organization Sean's Last Wish was organized and started by Sean's mother Elke Kennedy and can be found at http://www.seanslastwish.org The mission of Sean's Last Wish is to empower the community through educational diversity programs, non-violent conflict resolution and community involvement.)

Sean Kennedy’s family will never see justice done for Sean. Because of the inadequacy of South Carolina murder laws and the lack of hate crime statutes, his killer, Stephen Andrew Moller, could be out of prison as early as February. We must protest this injustice and ask the parole board to make Moller serve the remainder of his sentence.
Moller was plea bargained down to involuntary manslaughter and received a suspended 5 year sentence for his crime. Because of the credit he received for time he served before his sentencing, the longest possible time he will have to serve in prison is until September 2009. Despite the violence of his crime, he could be eligible for parole by this coming February, meaning that he will have served only 8 months since his sentencing in prison.
It is critical that they hear from you that Stephen Andrew Moller violently murdered Sean Kennedy and should serve the remainder of his sentence! Please consider writing a letter to the parole board and ask them to deny Stephen Moller parole and serve out his sentence. In your letter, please remind the board of the violent and unprovoked nature of Moller’s offense and the pain and suffering it has caused in the lives of Sean Kennedy’s family and friends. If you have the time, please write a personal letter by hand or by computer, as those will be the most effective, and if you knew Sean or his family personally, please include that information.