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13 Jul 2007, 3:19 am
"Georgia's state parole board will hear an appeal for clemency from Davis'slawyers on July 16, the day before his scheduled execution.Led by Davis's mother, activists recently delivered to the parole board morethan 4,000 letters supporting her son. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 1:12 am
Convicted felons should serve their time in state prisons, and minor parole violators should be released. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 4:43 am
President Bush got elected despite charges that he had used his father's connections to avoid service in Vietnam, the place where my client, Carl Johnson, found heroin.In Texas, the governor cannot commute a death row inmate's sentence without approval of the Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 7:48 am
Arguments in Ruiz's appeal failed to convince the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 6:28 pm
I believe that Governor Bush had little choice but to invite the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a commutation. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 9:53 am
Three key state criminal justice agencies' boards - the Texas Board of Criminal Justice (TBCJ), the Public Safety Commission (DPS) and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission - will all meet in Austin later this week. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 4:53 am
Georgia's Parole Board needs to give this serious consideration and decide whether it is worth even the possibility of killing an innocent man. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 1:15 am
DUTCHESS COUNTYTrusts and EstatesCourt Finds Guilty Plea to Misdemeanor Violation Insufficient to Warrant Executor's Disqualification Matter of Anderson ALBANY COUNTYCriminal PracticeParole Board Fails to Consider, Fairly Weigh Statutory Standards Mandating Vacatur of Denial of Parole Matter of Sanchez v. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 5:19 am
Send an urgent message to the Georgia State Board of Pardons & Paroles urging clemency in this case.Georgia State Board of Pardons & Paroles2 Martin Luther King, Jr. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 1:29 am
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Dinowitz (MS) -- Eliminates the relief granted by a certificate of good conduct or relief from disabilities for persons convicted of an A-I or violent felony for gun purposes Same as S 2663 Last Act: 07/06/07 delivered to governorA3286
Aubry -- Allows the board of parole to grant parole from an indeterminate sentence or release for deportation from a determinate sentence Same as S 6228 Last Act: 07/06/07 delivered to… [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 12:34 pm
I wanted to highlight a few recent Grits posts for my own easy reference and to make sure they made it onto Grits readers radar screens:County Jail Overcrowding SolutionsGrits best practices to reduce county jail overcrowding: Part TwoConsultant: Midland jail should tackle overincarceration by reducing pretrial detentionRookie Dallas jailers work with no training up to six monthsLawsuit moves forward toward quicker competency restorationPrivate PrisonsAG should investigate possible Geo Group… [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 4:05 am
My letter to the Georgia Board of Parole and Pardons, like so many, will fill up many dust bins unread, because of a "procedural bar", a procedure destined to prevent an appeal from being heard in the interest of "closure". [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 11:52 pm
" Williams said he hopes the pardons and paroles board moves toward clemency for Davis. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 11:17 pm
""The Pardons and Paroles Board is in a unique position," Ewart said. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 7:34 pm
" Five of the 18 members of the state parole board voted for clemency for Mr. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 2:16 am
(TDCJ's parole division makes recommendation, but the parole board must finally approve inmates' release.) [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 1:52 am
The issue is all the more acute since the 22nd Amendment ensured that second-term Presidents would pay no direct political price because they know they don't have to face the voters.By way of comparison, it's worth noting that many states have gone away from the traditional system whereby the Governor in his or her discretion grants clemency, and towards vesting the power to grant clemency in a Pardon & Parole Board. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 1:38 am
Under Collier's leadership, he and Parole Board chair Rissie Owens have together driven down Texas parole rates to their lowest point in state history, which all the number crunchers say is the primary cause of the state's prison overcrowding crisis.Mr. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 1:13 am
For The Life of Her Brother By Ron Lajoie AIUSA Staff Writer Martina Davis-Correia has every right to be bitter; bitter with her country, bitter with her neighbors, bitter with her God. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 6:42 am
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is Davis' last hope toprevent the execution, after the U.S. [read post]
