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19 Jul 2011, 1:14 pm
Now, barring a pardon from the governor or future clemency from the parole board, Mr. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 7:05 am
Much as with Judge Adams, every day Anderson remains on the bench taints and demeans not just the integrity of Texas' judiciary but the entire legal profession.Opportunity for activismSpeaking of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, they're up for Sunset review along with TDCJ and the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and you can see their self-evaluation report here (pdf). [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 8:16 am
Stroman's supporters are urging the governor and the state Board of Pardons and Parole to grant clemency. [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]
2 Jul 2007, 10:08 am
Patterson's mental illness was so severe that even the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a commutation. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 1:01 pm
Rick Perry after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended his sentence be commuted to life. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 11:39 am
If the high court denies Skinner's request to review the case, the decision falls to Perry, according to David Protess, a Northwestern University professor and director of the university's Medill Innocence Project, which has investigated Skinner's case.On Monday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Perry reject a reprieve for Skinner on a unanimous vote and also voted against granting Skinner's request for a commutation of… [read post]
16 Aug 2009, 2:05 am
Federal District Judge Sam Sparks recently said that the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole may have improperly labeled thousands of people "sex offenders," by requiring them to register upon release from prison even though they hadn't been convicted of a sex crime.It's hard not to conclude upon close examination that our sex-offender statutes are a big mess and the concluding paragraphs to the main Economist article make the case especially… [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 8:25 am
(Take a look, for example, at recently revealed interrogation techniques used by Mexican police.)Though I'll be surprised if it happens, I agree with the Tribune editorialist that the Board of Pardons and Parole and Gov. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 6:29 am
Foster's last recourse is the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and Texas Governor Rick Perry. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 9:25 am
Perry has the option of issuing a 30-day stay; only he and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, acting in concert, can commute Foster's sentence. [read post]
15 Feb 2007, 3:29 pm
Parole can be granted to these offenders only upon approval by at least five of the seven members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.Even so, Reps. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 5:18 pm
The Board of Pardons and Parole by rule will only reinstate gun rights earlier in the event of a pardon and if the gun is necessary for employment.But if gun ownership is an individual right on par with free speech, the right to counsel, and the right to be secure from unreasonable searches, on what possible basis can a million plus Texans be excluded from that "right" because of a felony? [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 3:45 am
"After carefully considering the facts of this case, along with therecommendations from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, I believe the rightand just decision is to commute Foster's sentence from the death penalty tolife imprisonment," Perry said in a statement. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 2:04 am
The decisions were the latest setback for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and state corrections officials, who have insisted for years that, to ensure public safety, they could impose the stringent conditions on parolees without a due-process hearing. - Hell, when people can just decide themselves what they can and cannot do, why even have laws? [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 9:07 am
Information from the interviews would be used to bolster claims in a clemency petition to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles that Pondexter has been a model inmate and has shown he is not a continued threat to society, a finding a jury made in 1994 when they decided he should be sent to death row. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 10:15 am
Texas state Senator Rodney Ellis suggested to CNN the broader questions the Commission did not ask: When did the State Fire Marshal start using modern arson science and did the State Fire Marshal commit professional negligence or misconduct when it failed to inform the courts, prosecutors, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Governor that flawed arson science had been used to convict hundreds of defendants? [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 6:45 am
Governor Perry (and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles) signed off on Willingham’s execution back in 2004, despite having in hand a report challenging the fire investigations as “junk science,” and the Governor has publicly challenged Beyler’s credibility, referring to him and others who have looked at the case as “supposed experts. [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 5:37 am
--------------------*The parole board's one-page letter denying the pardon request said he can apply for a formal exoneration again in two years. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 5:32 am
Supreme Court.The World Court last month ordered the U.S. government to "take all measures necessary" to halt the upcoming executions of five Mexicans including Medellin's on the grounds that they had been deprived of their right to consular services after their arrests.Medellin's execution is sure to anger neighboring Mexico and analysts have said it could make life rough for Americans arrested abroad if other countries decide to evoke the U.S. example and deprive them of… [read post]
