Sentences with phrase «parole board»

For offences committed in Canada, a pardon can be issued by the National Parole Board of Canada for the offence.

A state Parole Board member appointed by Cuomo is married to a convicted killer whose three - decade prison stint included a daring escape and biting off part of an inmate's nose.

Also at 5:30 p.m., parole reform advocates will protest Fishkill Correctional Facility inmate John MacKenzie's death «by parole board cruelty,» at state Parole Office, 97 Central Ave., Albany.

«I have so changed, that you would want me to be your neighbor, you would want me to be your friend,» Bell, 70, had told a trio of parole board members, according to minutes of his March 13 hearing obtained by The Post.

A half dozen state senators said Cuomo hasn't done enough to block a state Parole Board decision that will free convicted cop killer and Black Liberation Army member Herman Bell next month.

There are also worries about the small number of parole board hearings for prisoners on life sentences and imprisoned for public protection.

Examples of recent cases include the litigation in respect of the child refugees dispersed from the camp in Calais, Osborn in the Supreme Court on the requirements for Parole Board hearings, Sturnham in the Court of Appeal on damages for Article 5 breaches, the series of joined cases concerning reception conditions in Cyprus for asylum seekers, challenges to local authority taxi licensing policy, and challenges to the prison «book ban».

In February 2008, the Appeal Division of the National Parole Board granted Latimer day parole.

- Reduction of the scope of prison law to cases that engage Articles 5.4 (the right to have ongoing detention reviewed) and 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights, such as Parole Board review hearings, some sentencing matters and adjudication hearings for disciplinary matters.

«Resolved that the Town Board of Orangetown wishes to express its continuing condolences to and support for the family of Paula Bohovesky, who was brutally raped and murdered 33 years ago as Paula's family asks the New York State Parole Board not to release her killers, and be it further

State Supreme Court Justice Richard Koweek ruled Friday that the state Parole Board did not act irrationally or outside its bounds when it granted parole last month to Herman Bell after he served 44 years.

Each of you has railed against the New York State Parole Board granting parole, on March 14, to Herman.

A man who was 16 years old when he fatally strangled his girlfriend almost 40 years ago is entitled to a new parole board review that takes into consideration his age at the time of his crime, a divided upstate court has ruled.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A former New York state detective said Monday he gave an hour - and -15-minute victim - impact statement to a New York parole board Friday with a simple purpose: Keep Brinks getaway driver Judith Clark in prison.

Some insiders speculated Senate Democrats are using the nominations - which include parole board members - as leverage against $ 315 million in budget cuts Paterson wants.

Down 20 points in the polls, they are now using offensive imagery of abused women in their misleading ads,» said spokesman Peter Ajemian The independent Parole Board decided to release a man who served 23 years in prison based on its own criteria.

Now I understand why parole boards can rely upon unproven allegations when making decisions against the granting of parole.

John Howard Association of Illinois (Chicago, IL) 2008 — 2009 Attorney (Pro-Bono) • Volunteered to provide representation to an indeterminately sentenced prisoner who had previously been denied parole on twenty - three (23) separate occasions • Advised client of rights and legal strategies while successfully persuading parole board to grant parole

A Nevada parole board granted.

During Bell's eighth parole hearing in early March, the state parole board approved Bell's release from Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, determining «his debt has been paid to society.»

Judge - led hearings, open to the public, should be held to reconsider Parole Board decisions on the release of prisoners, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has proposed.

«The wife of a convicted murderer who once broke out of prison is a State Parole Board commissioner.

Dennison admitted the union of an inmate and future parole board member was likely unprecedented — but said he met O'Sullivan in prison and, «(He) struck me a changed man.»

Before becoming licensed to practice law in Ohio, Abe worked as a probation officer in Franklin County, and later served as a hearing officer in parole revocation proceedings, and prosecuted cases before the Ohio Adult Parole Board.

According to Richard Berk, a professor of criminology and statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, an Illinois parole board started to use algorithms in the 1920s.

Federal Court judge overturns parole board condition that bars Robert Latimer from leaving country, Toronto Star

The result was three decades of mass incarceration, fueled by mandatory sentencing schemes, and the abolition of release - readiness determining parole boards.

(Crown attorney Lee Burgess said he wanted enough evidence on the record to persuade future parole boards never to release Williams).

In a landmark study performed by the National Academy of Sciences, parole board judges were most likely to give a favorable ruling early in the morning.

And how does a Christian meet parole board standards when he tells em they are dirtbag dustballs on the way to hell for following the dirtbag dustball Freud??

But the Virginia parole board and its counterparts across America took careful note of the signs of the times — board members are political appointees — and dramatically cut back the number of discretionary discharges.

NYC's biggest police union is demanding a do - over of the recent parole board decision to free convicted cop killer Herman Bell, requesting a hearing on behalf of the widow of Officer Joseph Piagentini, who was assassinated with his partner, Waverly Jones, in 1971.

The state parole board next month will consider paroling Anthony Bottom, convicted of murdering NYPD officers Anthony Piagentini and Waverly Jones in May 1971.

Yet, there is one person Lynch has avoided criticizing: Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who appointed the current parole board.

They called on state lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to fix what the PBA refers to as the «broken» state parole board system.

O.J. Simpson appeared before a Nevada parole board today and was granted parole; he could be released as soon as October 1.

Corrupt, racist parole boards enabled by Senate Republican leadership keep people who shouldn't be there behind bars.

But though I believe in redemption and realize Aires Correira may be a changed man, I found the wording in David Soares» letter to the Rhode Island Parole Board, as quoted by the Troy Record, troubling.

The probe resulted in convictions for several state parole board officials and a Pataki fund raiser, but no charges were filed against Dan Wiese.

New regulations proposed by the Cuomo administration would give parole boards a formal scoring process — dubbed the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions — to follow in determining an inmate's merit for parole.

Here's the transcript of the Aug. 22 parole board interview with Mark David Chapman, in which he was denied parole for the seventh time for shooting and killing John Lennon in December 1980.

Lawyers for the state Attorney General's office are fighting to uphold last month's controversial parole board decision to free three - time cop - killer Herman Bell — arguing that the widow of one...

The state parole board last month approved the release of Herman Bell for next Wednesday but the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association filed a lawsuit on behalf of a widow of one of the slain officer to try to keep him in jail.

Nominate more professionally, racially, and geographically diverse parole board candidates who more accurately represent the New York communities most impacted by crime and incarceration.

That led the department's director, Marsha Wright, to establish Transitions and select Gomez to advise the group and recruit new students each month at the county's monthly parole board check - ins.

The seven member parole board unanimously denied Dodson his parole.