By Bee Staff
Bee researcher Linda Beymer contributed to this report
Two Sacramento area convicts serving life sentences recently told The California Board of Parole Hearings that they didn't want to be considered for paroles.
Kenneth Roy Stark, 55, requested and was granted his request for a one-year waiver of his right to a parole hearing.
James Elmer Harmon, 69, offered to stipulate that he was unsuitable for parole for a five-year period, an offer that the board accepted.
A Yolo County Superior Court judge sentenced Stark to life in prison for the June 13, 1985 beating death of a homeless man, The Bee reported.
The body of Ronald Eugene Meyers, 42, was dumped in a Yolo Bypass field.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Harmon to life plus 17 years in April 1987 for a kidnap-robbery with a couple of accomplices that netted them $3,000, The Bee reported.
Harmon hit the victim with a pipe in the September 1986 crime.
Harmon had an extensive criminal history going back to 1959. The deputy district attorney who prosecuted him for the kidnap-robbery was the son of the deputy district attorney who won a conviction of Harmon in 1960.
The two were originally scheduled parole hearings last month.
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