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5 May 2011, 5:50 am
Texas' Board of Pardons and Paroles may no longer impose "Special Condition X" - i.e., labeling someone a sex offender and requiring sex-offender treatment, registration, etc.. - when they weren't convicted of a sex-crime and the state has held no evidentiary hearing to determine it's warranted, according to a Court of Criminal Appeals opinion issued yesterday. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 7:32 pm
Rick Perry has appointed Shanda Perkins to the state parole board. [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 1:53 pm
Before beginning the Board of Pardons and Parole recommends the applicant obtain the following documents: (1) offense reports for any arrests; (2) certified court documents for these arrests including complaints, indictments, judgments, orders of dismissals, etc; (3) an official criminal history statement from their local county sheriff; and (4) three current letters of recommendation from persons other than family members who are familiar with the… [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 10:39 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommended a stay of execution for Kenneth Foster. [read post]
13 May 2009, 12:34 am
Rick Perry's nominees to serve on the state board of pardons and parole over concerns she is unqualified for the job.The 27-4 vote Wednesday to send the nomination of Shanda Perkins of Burleson back to committee was a resounding bipartisan rejection of the former banker. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 3:23 am
Aug. 30, 2007Parole board votes to spare condemned killerBy MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated PressHUNTSVILLE, Texas - The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommendedThursday that Gov. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 1:16 pm
Members of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole would love to gaze into an inmate's future before releasing him back onto the streets. [read post]
6 May 2009, 4:51 am
I'm not the only one, apparently, dissatisfied with Shanda Perkins' nomination for the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 4:35 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has recommended a pardon for Timothy Cole, who died in prison of an asthma attack before DNA could prove he was innocent of the rape for which he was falsely convicted. [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 5:20 pm
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin decided on May 4, 2011 that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles does not have the power, without first providing due process, to order prisoners who were not convicted of sex offenses to be released on parole under sex offender supervision requirements. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 8:08 am
After several days of listening to attorneys for the State of Texas defend the state parole board's operations, he became exasperated by the testimony of a parole board lawyer. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 8:31 am
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker It’s extremely rare for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate facing execution but it happened this month. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 8:31 am
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker It’s extremely rare for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate facing execution but it happened this month. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 10:02 am
We believe a court would likely conclude that the Board of Pardons and Paroles is authorized to recommend that the Governor grant a posthumous pardon. [read post]
16 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman this week reported ("Senators propose removing parole duties from prison agency," Feb. 13) that parole board chair Rissie Owens has been "quietly shopping" a proposal to shift control of parole operations from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 12:39 pm
Duane Buck's attorney, Kate Black with Texas Defender Service, has issued a statement following the action by the Board of Pardons and Paroles: “The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles’ recommendation against granting clemency to Duane Buck fails to recognize what the highest legal officer in the State of Texas had acknowledged: No one should be executed based on a process tainted by… [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 8:20 am
The pardon had been recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 1:18 am
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION BEFORE THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND TEXAS BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES ---------------------- . --------------------- JAMES LEE CLARK DENTON COUNTY CRIMINAL CASE No. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:28 am
But I have never been free.Two months later, DNA evidence proved my innocence.Because I pleaded no-contest to the murder, I cannot be declared actually innocent unless the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends to Governor Rick Perry that I be pardoned and Texas Governor Rick Perry agrees and sets me free.Without being exonerated, I feel I am still in a Texas prison.Please sign my petition and ask the… [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 2:06 am
Normally, the Texas Senate rubber stamps the Governor's appointments to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, but one of Rick Perry's three appointees announced last week perhaps deserves closer vetting by the Senate. [read post]
