OAKLAND — Citing “public safety,” an Alameda County judge has quashed a deal that would have allowed a murder suspect to walk free more than six years after he allegedly killed a man on International Boulevard.

Last April, 32-year-old Bryon Revels pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter, with the expectation of being sentenced to six years he’d already served behind bars. But during his June sentencing hearing, Judge Kimberly Colwell called a private sidebar with the prosecuting and defense attorneys, then returned to the bench and announced the deal wouldn’t be going through.

“I cannot agree to this because I don’t believe it protects the public safety,” Colwell said, according to a transcript of the hearing. She later added she wanted the lawyers to try and “resolve this” and said

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