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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.

For one, it has been shown that parole boards do much worse than algorithms in assessing which prisoners should be sent home.

The effect of the amendment was to eliminate the mandatory oral hearing held by the Parole Board du Canada for reviews following the suspension, termination or revocation of parole or statutory release.

The Parole Board does not have the independence from the executive that is required for its judicial role in determining whether or not convicted prisoners should be released on licence.

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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??

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.

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.

Robert Dennison, the state's chairman of parole under Gov. George Pataki, said it is critical that the public understands that clemency doesn't release a person from prison but makes them eligible to be heard before the parole board sooner.

With strong criticism of the state parole board, Supreme Court Justice Richard Mott in Columbia County on April 12 ordered officials to grant former political consultant Hank Morris a new hearing, and to do so no later than April 22.

The governor's action does not free Clark, but means her case will go before the parole board in the next few months.

Cuomo, in his first public comments on the issue, said 67 - year - old Judith Clark has «done great work» while in prison and deserves the opportunity to make her case to the Parole Board.

Among the wide variety of speakers asking the governor to do the humane thing and start issuing clemencies were Allen Roskoff, President of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Robert Dennison, retired Chairman, New York State Board of Parole, Philanthropist Bill Samuels, Zenaida Mendez, President of NYS NOW, and celebrities Kathryn Erbe, star of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Cathrine Curtin from Orange is the New Black.

Cuomo's order allows her to appear before the Parole Board, which she otherwise would not have been eligible to do until she turned 106.

Washington is one such state, though they do have an «Indeterminate Sentence Review Board» (i.e. parole board) that considers a limited set of cases (mainly those sentences before July 1 1984 when the state switched to determinate sentencBoard» (i.e. parole board) that considers a limited set of cases (mainly those sentences before July 1 1984 when the state switched to determinate sentencboard) that considers a limited set of cases (mainly those sentences before July 1 1984 when the state switched to determinate sentencing).

If an indication is given, the judge should make it clear that if the defendant is later assessed as «dangerous», the sentences mandated by CJA 2003 — an indeterminate or extended sentence — will be imposed and that, if the accused is assessed as dangerous, the indication can only relate to the notional determinate term which will be used in the calculation of the minimum specified period the offender would have to serve before he may apply to the Parole Board to direct his release or, in a case where an extended sentence is the only lawful option, it will relate to the appropriate custodial term within the extended sentence — that is, the indication does not encompass the length of any extension period during which the offender will be on licence following his release.Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No 16) Order 2007 (SI 2007/1999) Section 29 of CJA 2003 creates (in the case of public prosecutions only) a new method of commencing criminal proceedings — written charge and requisition, to replace laying an information and issuing a summons.

ii) In the ordinary way, in cases in which the appropriate sentence would be a consecutive sentence to the sentence for public protection, there is a serious problem because a sentencing judge considering imposing such a sentence does not know when the existing sentence for public protection will expire — as s / he can not predict when the Parole Board will agree to release the offender.

(v) If the offender is later assessed as «dangerous», the indication can only relate to the notional determinate term which will be used in the calculation of the minimum specified period the offender would have to serve before he may apply to the Parole Board to direct his release; or, in a case where an extended sentence is the only lawful option, it will relate to the appropriate custodial term within the extended sentence — that is, the indication does not encompass the length of any extension period during which the offender will be on licence following his release.