HOUSTON (AP) — A Florida woman who traveled to Texas to argue against releasing from prison the chief defendant in the 1991 slaying of her son says her meeting in Huntsville with two members of the state parole board went well.

“I won’t have a response for probably 10 days,” Nancy Rodriguez told the Houston Chronicle.

Jon Christopher Buice, 29, is serving 45 years for the murder of gay banker Paul Broussard, but became eligible for parole this month.

Two others convicted — Jaime Aguirre, 30, and his brother Javier Aguirre, 28 — are serving terms of 15 years and a day. They also are eligible for parole.

Buice was considered the chief assailant among 10 who participated in assaulting Broussard, which was termed a “gay bashing.” Broussard suffered numerous injuries, but officials said it was a knife wound inflicted by Buice that killed him.

Andy Kahan, crime victims advocate with the Houston mayor’s office, said the parole panel has the option of granting parole or delaying the next hearing for one, two or three years. A new Texas law that allows for five-year delays won’t apply to the petitions in the Broussard case because parole officials are still working out criteria for applying the new law, postponing its application until January, he said.

Buice’s father, Jim Buice, said the board has agreed to let him and a lawyer present their case next week for his son’s release.

Gay advocate Ray Hill, whose efforts to call public attention to Broussard’s fatal beating and stabbing on a Montrose sidewalk helped Houston police solve the case, sides with Buice. He says Buice is no longer a danger to society.

Buice’s father said Hill “is welcome to come with me because he has been an advocate for my son, but he does not speak for me. I can speak for myself. I think they will make the right decision.”

Texas law allows victims’ families to address parole board members, who also have latitude to hear from defendants’ relatives.

Rodriguez and Kahan said they spent most of the time Monday with Rissie Owens of Huntsville, the “lead voter” on the parole applications of Buice and Javier Aguirre.

Owens said she will pass information provided by them and others to parole board member LaFayette Collins of Huntsville, the petition’s “second voter.” If the two parole board members agree on the fate of Buice or Aguirre, the matter is decided. If they cannot come to agreement, a third voter, Roy Anthony Garcia of Palestine, would break the impasse.