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24 Dec 2010, 6:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reading about these institutional dynamics made me consider the position of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles as a de facto, semi-autonomous appendage of the Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 4:33 am by Dwight Sullivan
Phil “My Liege” Cave calls our attention to this post on the Defend Michael website announcing that on 22 December, 1LT Behenna was informed that no additional clemency would be granted as a result of the 2 December Army Clemency and Parole Board hearing. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 10:32 am by SOIssues
The National Parole Board has granted more than 400,000 pardons since 1970. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 5:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ruckman who writes the blog Pardon Power got in a good one: "In Texas, the Board of Pardons and Paroles would seem to give the governor a kind of political cover, since he can’t grant a pardon without their recommendation. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 6:22 am by Adam Chandler
Florida, last Term’s juvenile-life-without-parole case, “continues to ripple through the Iowa judicial system. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 9:24 am by Steve Hall
The state's attorney general's office, representing Perry, said the memo was protected under attorney-client privilege, and that the supporting documents from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles were confidential under the law. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"I'm not holding my breath for Governor Perry to begin to make clemency a more meaningful remedy for "government overreach," but there's a strong case to be made that he can and should treat the pardon power as more than just a token Christmastime genuflection to values of mercy and forgiveness, which are then ignored in practice throughout the rest of the year.RELATED: How the Grinch stole clemency: Christmastime pardons trivialize processUPDATE: Via Pardon Power, I noticed… [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 9:54 pm by Matthew Flinn
In May 2005, and again in January 2007, the Parole Board declined to direct the release of Mr. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 10:53 am by Dean Stowers and Nick Sarcone
  So, if the judge were to sentence Koehlhoeffer to three consecutive sentences, the Iowa Department of Corrections and the Iowa Board of Parole would aggregate the sentences and treat them as one 25 year term. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:30 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Each plan has a corporate board of peer advisers. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 2:15 am by sally
Supreme Court Principal Reporter v K & Ors (Scotland) [2010] UKSC 56 (15 December 2010) Revenue and Customs v DCC Holdings (UK) Ltd [2010] UKSC 58 (15 December 2010) Edwards & Anor, R (on the application of) v Environment Agency & Ors [2010] UKSC 57 (15 December 2010) Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Pluck v R [2010] EWCA Crim 2936 (15 December 2010) Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Friends of Basildon Golf Course, R (on the application of) v Basildon District Council [2010] EWCA… [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 7:15 am by Albert Wan
JUST PAROLE DECISIONS: The Parole Board capriciously and regularly denies parole to the majority of prisoners despite evidence of eligibility. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 8:28 am by pfriedman
Third are participants in judicial processes that end in executions—detectives, prosecutors, witnesses, judges, jurors, defense counsel, investigators, clemency board members, and the medically trained personnel who carry out the execution process and whom Garland describes as being somewhat embarrassed by doing so. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 2:31 pm by Christine Dowling
  Local prosecutor Alex Gardner is urging the parole board to again deny Downs early release, and to defer any further hearings for another decade under a new state law that extended the permitted time between hearings from two years to ten. [read post]
Similarly, when Cameron Todd Willingham was executed, the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole and Gov. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 10:27 am by SOIssues
Board of Probation and Parole field services director Gary Tullock says the use of the lie detector tests is supposed to be limited to treatment, not supervision, of offenders on release. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 6:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The parole board could do more to help with that task than  the Lege, of course, since the majority of TDCJ inmates are already parole eligible.So far, TDCJ officials have been unwilling to suggest closing units, but in the face of a shortfall this big I doubt they'll have a choice. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 4:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Take a look:Clearly 2003 was the high-water mark for Perry pardons, with 73 clemency requests granted out of 90 recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, including pardons for 35 people convicted in the notorious "Tulia drug stings" and others from the Dallas fake drug scandal. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 11:32 am by Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
A Horrific Tragedy in 2005 Grady Nelson, 53, did not get a death sentence, instead he will serve life behind bars without parole. [read post]