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21 Jan 2009, 9:10 pm
I suspect that the Board will veer away from disbarring Finneran. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 3:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A federal judge on Tuesday issued yet another bench slapping to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles over the BPP's insistence on placing sex-offender conditions on (possibly) thousands of parolees who've never been convicted of a sex crime. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 8:36 am
Shin's attorney argued that this law was an unconstitutional intrusion by the Legislature into the powers of the Pardons Board, which consists of the Governor, Attorney General, and Justices of the Nevada Supreme Court. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 8:28 am by Ken
Yesterday the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to commute the death sentence of inmate Troy Davis, who was convicted in the 1989 death of a police officer. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 8:07 am by Steve Hall
Yesterday afternoon, the Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a 60-day reprieve for Hank Skinner to allow time for DNA testing. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 6:20 pm by Jeralyn
"My decision about clemency was based upon the recommendation of the Parole Board in more than 90 percent of the cases. [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]
16 Jul 2007, 5:00 pm
John Lewis to the Board of Pardons and Paroles during the hearing. [read post]
22 May 2012, 12:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Last year Grits wondered aloud if the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles had created massive civil liability for themselves and the state by continuing to defy the federal judiciary over the application of "Condition X," which is a battery of sex-offender conditions (basically everything except public registration, including residency restrictions, etc.) applied as a condition of parole, even though the parolee has never been convicted of a sex offense. [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]
12 Sep 2022, 8:01 am by Attorney Ketchel
  The Board of Pardons is accepting applications from September 1 to September 30, 2022. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 10:23 pm by Kevin
  According to Florida political blog The Fine Print, Morrison's case was not on the list at the first clemency-board meeting back in February, but there are three more meetings this year before Florida Gov. [read post]
22 May 2008, 4:37 pm
It was only the third time since 1995 that the Pardons and Parole Board has commuted a death sentence. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 7:41 am
John Lewis gave to the board shortly after it convened this morning:"Good morning, Chairperson Hunt and members of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
8 May 2012, 12:27 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
In 1974, Gerald Ford used his presidential pardon power to create an executive clemency board to oversee the petitions of 21,000 people convicted of draft-related offenses during the Vietnam War. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 12:31 pm by Steve Hall
As Barbour's office pointed out, the vast majority of those whom he pardoned had already served their full sentences, and his pardons were based on the recommendations of the parole board. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 12:39 pm by Steve Hall
  You can read prosecutor Linda Geffin's letter to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Regular readers are aware of the controversy surrounding the Board of Pardons and Paroles assigning sex-offender conditions to parolees who've never been convicted of a sex crime. [read post]