Parole Board OKs Amy Fisher’s Release

ALBANY, N.Y. — A parole board has voted to release Amy Fisher after nearly seven years in prison for shooting her lover’s wife in the face, Associated Press has learned.

A state official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that a three-member panel voted, 2-1, to release Fisher. She is expected to be freed next week.

Fisher, 24, was interviewed by the panel Tuesday at Albion Correctional Facility in western New York and was to be notified today of its decision.

Fisher was 16 when she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco at her home on New York’s Long Island in 1992.