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DRAPER, Utah (AP) -- Utah's Board of Pardons and Parole will keep a Box Elder County man convicted of raping a 6-year-old girl in prison for the rest of his life.
Board spokesman Jim Hatch says the board voted unanimously last week to deny Stanley Allen Smith an opportunity for parole and imposed a prison term of "natural life." Smith had a parole hearing on May 9.
In 1993 a jury convicted Smith of first-degree felony charges of aggravated kidnapping, sodomy of a child and rape of a child. The girl was taken at knifepoint from a playground in Corrine.
A judge initially sentenced Smith to four consecutive terms of 15 years to life. The Utah Supreme Court reduced the sentence on appeal.
Utah law gives the parole board the final say on prison terms.
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Information from: Standard-Examiner
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