Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian man convicted of the 1968 murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will go before the California Parole Board without opposition from prosecutors.
Kennedy, the nephew of former US President John F. Kennedy.
But no award or honor ... means so much to me that I would forfeit the right to follow the dictates of my own conscience," the Harry Potter author wrote.
The remains of 8-year-old Gideon McKean were found about 2,000 feet from where the body of his mother, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, was discovered on Monday, the Times said.
Sirhan was convicted of fatally shooting the senator on June 5, 1968. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was changed to life in prison after the death penalty was banned in California.
Two of Robert and Ethel's sons suffered untimely deaths - David, of a drug overdose in 1984 at age 28 and Michael at age 39 in a 1997 skiing accident.