A man convicted of murdering his adoptive mother in San Rafael in 2010 has been denied parole for three more years.

Richard Leroy Carlson, 36, killed Eleanor Joyce Carlson with a knife at her home on C Street near Gerstle Park. She was 72.

Carlson, who was adopted by the victim and her husband as a child, testified that she abused him physically, sexually and emotionally after the death of his adoptive father years earlier. On the night of the stabbing, Carlson said, his mother pushed him during an argument and said he “wasn’t a part of the family anyway.”

“She told me to get out of the way and pushed me to the side,” Carlson testified. “I said, ‘You will never touch me again.’”

Carlson lived in the East Bay at the time and was a student at Laney College. He was arrested in the East Ba

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