Larry M. Demery is currently serving a life sentence after his conviction for the first-degree murder of James Jordan in 1993.
One of the two men convicted in the 1993 murder of basketball legend Michael Jordan ‘s father will not be released from prison in August 2024, a North Carolina state panel announced Tuesday. The state Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission said in a news release that the agreement that would have given the man parole “has been terminated,” but provided no reason for the change. Larry M. Demery is currently serving a life sentence after his conviction for the first-degree murder of James Jordan. The commission announced the agreement in 2020 that would release Demery from prison after he took part in a scholastic and vocational program aimed at readying him for life outside prison. He was initially scheduled for release in August 2023, but it was later delayed by a year.
