- Antonie Farani is seeking parole for a 2009 murder committed when he was just 14.
- He expressed remorse, citing changes and a desire to contribute positively.
- The parole board will decide soon, taking his crime and past prison discipline issues into consideration.
UTAH STATE PRISON — Antonie Hunter Farani was 14 years old when he shot JoJo Brandstatt, 18, three times execution-style on a West Valley golf course and left him for dead while he committed more crimes in 2009.
Farani was eventually arrested, charged and convicted. In 2012, he was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years and up to life in the Utah State Prison for aggravated murder, and 15 years to life for two counts of aggravated kidnapping. The murder and kidnapping charges were ordered to run consecutively.
But because Farani was just 14 at the time of the crime, he was granted his first parole hearing on Tuesday…