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30 Nov 2009, 8:33 am
My colleague, Rodney Brown and I, recently persuaded the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend sparing the life of our client, Robert Lee Thompson. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 11:39 am
Unable to raise a mental retardation claim with the courts at this late stage, Woods’ new attorney, Maurie Levin, must rely on the good graces of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, and Governor Rick Perry, to commute his sentence, or at least to grant a 60 day reprieve to allow Levin more time “to adequately present a full picture of his limitations. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 9:27 am
But after years of being represented by a discredited attorney who ruined any chance for an appeal based on his disabilities, the fate of Bobby Wayne Woods rests with the state Board of Pardons and Paroles which can recommend clemency or a reprieve to Gov. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 10:43 pm
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles oversees 365 sex offenders who have been released early and are serving the balance of their sentences on parole. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 8:42 am
Then, periodically, you go before the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole which decides whether you stay in prison or whether you are released on parole. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 8:23 am
Rick Perry announced he was rejecting the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommendation to commute the sentence. [read post]
21 Nov 2009, 10:49 am
In "An embarrassment to Texas justice," Houston criminal defense lawyer Tom Moran writes about the case of his client Robert Thompson, executed the night before last after Texas Governor Rick Perry refused to commute his sentence despite the recommendation of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, for a capital murder in which he was not the shooter, and in which the shooter was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 9:25 am
The second clerk lived.Perry's decision came after the state Board of Pardons and Paroles had voted 5-2 on Wednesday to recommend that Perry commute Thompson's death sentence to life in prison, a rare move for the panel. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 3:39 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted yesterday, 5-2, to recommend a commutation to the governor.Governor Perry's statement is here. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 2:46 pm
Rick Perry after the state parole board recommended the death sentence be commuted to life in prison.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles made the rare recommendation Wednesday for Robert Lee Thompson, 34, who was not the triggerman in the fatal shooting of a Houston convenience store clerk. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 11:29 am
Please contact Governor Perry and urge him to follow the advice of Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles by commuting Thompson’s sentence to life in prison. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:34 am
Rick Perry after the state parole board recommended that the death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 8:22 pm
Allan Turner writes, "Board: Commute death sentence in Houston case," for the Houston Chronicle.The state pardons board today recommended that Houston killer Robert Thompson's scheduled Thursday execution be commuted to life in prison after his lawyer successfully argued that he was not the triggerman in a December 1996 convenience store robbery-murder.Gov. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 7:47 am
In this case, if the Board of Pardons and Paroles doesn’t stay the execution, Thompson will die Thursday â€" and if the state kills him in our name, Texans won’t be one bit safer than they are now. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 2:09 pm
11-13-2009 Texas: by Mike Ward Judge repeals jury fine but chides state parole board. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 2:57 am
But he called her out for violating parolees' civil rights in just about the harshest terms imaginable and ordered the state to pay six-figure legal fees, reports the Statesman's Mike Ward ("No liability for parole chief," Nov. 13): The Tuesday decision absolves Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Chairwoman Rissie Owens of personal liability in actions against Ray Curtis Graham and still leaves state taxpayers liable for… [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 9:26 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week rejected a request from his lawyers that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [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 Nov 2009, 7:58 am
†The report was sent to Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles with Willingham's appeal for clemency. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 12:39 pm
He did not issue a reprieve for any review, and the Board of Pardons and Paroles chose not to hold a hearing and not to recommend any reprieve or commutation. [read post]
