A man who has served 27 years of a 15-year-to-life sentence for the murder of his wife has been granted a new parole hearing by a judge who said the Parole Board focused solely on the 1986 crime in rejecting the inmate’s bid for release.

Acting Supreme Court Justice Frank LaBuda (See Profile) said that at Philip Rabenbauer’s ninth parole hearing in December 2012, the board “failed to articulate any reasoning for its decision to deny parole release.”

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