Parole Denied For Tuscaloosa Man Serving Life Sentence For 1991 Murder

TUSCALOOSA, AL — A Tuscaloosa man serving a life sentence for murder has been denied parole more than three decades after pleading guilty to his role in a 1991 fatal shooting.

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The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected the parole request from Cleo Harold Crout Hambright during a hearing on Tuesday.

He is currently imprisoned at the Hamilton Community Work Center.

Records show Hambright has served more than 32 years of a sentence imposed in 1992 by Circuit Court Judge Robert V. Wooldridge after he pleaded guilty to the killing of 24-year-old Frederick Williams in Tuscaloosa.

Court records and contemporaneous news reports said Williams was shot several times with a 9mm handgun in August 1991 in the McKenzie Court area.

Hambright and his brother, Milton Hambright, were both charged with the shooting.

Milton Hambright was convicted by a jury, while Cleo Hambright entered a guilty plea before his trial began.

Alabama Department of Corrections records show Milton Hambright is serving his life sentence at the Childersburg Community Work Center in Talladega County.

In addition to the murder charge, Cleo Hambright pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a controlled substance and received a three-year sentence to run concurrently.

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