Kristen Price, the former girlfriend of Aaron McKinney, plead guilty to a reduced charge of one misdemeanor charge of interfering with a police officer and was sentenced to 180 days in jail. She was credited with 120 days for time already served and the remaining 60 days were suspended. Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are currently serving two-life sentences after pleading guilty to the robbery and murder of Matthew Shepard. Price's accomplice and Henderson's former girlfriend Chastity Pasley is serving 15 - 24 months as an accessory.
Matthew Shepard's parents Dennis and Judy Shepard visited Washington, DC November 8 1999to lobby for passage of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HPCA) which, among other provisions, would make sexual orientation a protected category under federal hate crimes law. "This is one piece of unfinished business that we have now that the trial is over, " Dennis Shepard said. "We need to do this for Matthew and for everybody else to keep this from happening again. " The Shepards met with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and with President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff John Podesta, who assured them that both Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are committed to enacting the law.
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