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7 Dec 2017, 5:34 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
The Wall Street Journal reported that the planned December "crime parley" would include discussion of "prisons, paroles, bar ethics, and other problems. [read post]
13 Oct 2016, 8:26 am by Francis Pileggi
Furthermore, no parol evidence could have been considered since there was no ambiguity. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 12:31 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
 The detention center hit this halfway mark following the Guantanamo parole board’s clearing of Yemeni captive, Musab Omar Ali al Madhwani, for release to resettlement outside his homeland on Monday. 17 detainees not facing charges are still awaiting their parole board verdicts. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 3:38 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Representative Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, “wants the State Department’s inspecto [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 8:20 am by Steven D. Silverman
Currently drug offenders earn only 5 days of credit a month even though other nonviolent offenders earn 10 • Geriatric parole: o Expands eligibility by reducing the qualifying age from 65 to 60 and must have served 15yrs and excludes sex offenders • Medical parole: o Requires that applications have evaluations from an independent authority o If the offender is sentenced to life, the Governor has 180 days to disapprove medical parole … [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 8:20 am by Steven D. Silverman
Currently drug offenders earn only 5 days of credit a month even though other nonviolent offenders earn 10 • Geriatric parole: o Expands eligibility by reducing the qualifying age from 65 to 60 and must have served 15yrs and excludes sex offenders • Medical parole: o Requires that applications have evaluations from an independent authority o If the offender is sentenced to life, the Governor has 180 days to disapprove medical parole … [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 8:20 am by Steven D. Silverman
Currently drug offenders earn only 5 days of credit a month even though other nonviolent offenders earn 10 • Geriatric parole: o Expands eligibility by reducing the qualifying age from 65 to 60 and must have served 15yrs and excludes sex offenders • Medical parole: o Requires that applications have evaluations from an independent authority o If the offender is sentenced to life, the Governor has 180 days to disapprove medical parole … [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 8:20 am by Steven D. Silverman
Currently drug offenders earn only 5 days of credit a month even though other nonviolent offenders earn 10 • Geriatric parole: o Expands eligibility by reducing the qualifying age from 65 to 60 and must have served 15yrs and excludes sex offenders • Medical parole: o Requires that applications have evaluations from an independent authority o If the offender is sentenced to life, the Governor has 180 days to disapprove medical parole … [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 8:20 am by Steven D. Silverman
Currently drug offenders earn only 5 days of credit a month even though other nonviolent offenders earn 10 • Geriatric parole: o Expands eligibility by reducing the qualifying age from 65 to 60 and must have served 15yrs and excludes sex offenders • Medical parole: o Requires that applications have evaluations from an independent authority o If the offender is sentenced to life, the Governor has 180 days to disapprove medical parole … [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 6:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Abbott has replaced Rissie Owens as parole board chair with David Gutierrez, "who has served on the parole board since 2009, served as the sheriff in Lubbock for 11 years and was chairman of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical and Mental Impairments Advisory Board. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 12:09 pm by Quinta Jurecic , Staley Smith
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin E. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 10:08 am by Sebastian Brady
Meanwhile, the Miami Herald reports that Abdul Rahman Shalabi, a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened, appeared before a multi-agency parole board Tuesday, requesting to be sent home to Saudi Arabia. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Changes the law to target only persons that have discharged their prison sentence and stops the civil commitment of persons who have been released on parole.The civil commitment of persons on parole is largely seen as a waste of resources since persons on parole can be required to participate in sex offender treatment, as a condition of parole and a court order is not necessary.5. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 11:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Bills that create new crimes, increase penalties, change probation or parole eligibility must now say so in the bill caption. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 4:53 pm
After the murder of the former head of the Department - Tom Clements by a parolee , according to Parole Board Chairman Shaffer - the increase makes sense: "Clements' murder undoubtedly drove more conservative decision-making. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 5:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
• With no smoke inhalation or heat damage to Richardson’s throat and lungs, there is no evidence he was alive at the time of the fire.Instead, it appears that Richardson, a 76-year-old who smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day, died of a heart attack while smoking in bed, Cacy’s lawyers argue, adding that numerous burn marks on the furniture show that Richardson was a careless smoker.Other experts reached similar conclusions in 1998, prompting the Texas Board… [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 5:53 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law." [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 12:27 pm by Joe May
Tennessee: “Tennessee governor names former parole board chairman to Ethics Commission” by Tom Humphrey in the Commercial Appeal. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 8:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At least this session the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee was somewhat more immune to that dynamic, though obviously not completely.Grits' Nominations coverage a death knellI never planned it this way but in each of the last three sessions, this blog has directly contributed to the Senate's rejection of at least one Governor's nominee: Shanda Perkins for the parole board in 2009, John Bradley at the Forensic Science Commission in 2011, and this year, it was Annette Raggette for… [read post]