«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
A coalition of Republican Senators and police unions has launched an online petition urging the state
parole board not to release a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing two New York City police officers — Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones — in 1971.
Not exact matches
«The
Parole Board is an independent board and I would not have made that decision.&r
Board is an independent
board and I would not have made that decision.&r
board and I would
not have made that decision.»
«If I were on the
Parole Board I would
not have made that decision,» Cuomo said.
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.
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
Parole Board did
not act irrationally or outside its bounds when it granted
parole last month to Herman Bell after he served 44
parole last month to Herman Bell after he served 44 years.
The governor's action does
not free Clark, but means her case will go before the
parole board in the next few months.
Even though the state
parole board had denied him
parole 4 months earlier and he wasn't eligible to reapply for another year.
«If I were on the
parole board, I would
not have made that decision,» Cuomo said at an unrelated New York City event Thursday morning.
«The
parole board is an independent
board and I would
not have made that decision.»
«
Not only have they compounded the pain and suffering we have experienced since my husband's death, they have also put the safety of the public in jeopardy by releasing a vicious killer like Herman Bell,» Piagentini said of Koweek and the
parole board.
The senators said Bell's online postings leading up to the hearing show he was
not a changed man, as the
Parole Board said.
It will
not be tolerated,» said state
parole officer V. Antonio Perez, an Executive
Board member of the NYS Public Employees Federation (PEF), the labor union that represents
parole officers and other professional, scientific and technical employees of the state.
At his
parole hearing his probation officer couldn't provide the
parole board with a release and risk management plan.
Yet, notes Levitt, «there is one person Lynch has avoided criticizing»: Gov. Cuomo, who
not only appointed the current
board, but also «reversed the
board's priorities when deciding
parole» to de-emphasize the circumstances of the crime.
Cuomo said that he, too, disagreed with the
parole board's decision — but his hands are tied since the
board is an independent body and
not under his control.
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.
«But I would never tell a
parole board to decide whether to release somebody or hold on to somebody, based on their brain scan as an individual, because I can't tell what are the causal factors in that individual.»
An offender released on a life sentence will be eligible for recall at any time, and
not just at the direction of the
parole board.
Such requirements are mediated through the practices of the
parole board: it may be that a
parole board would
not consider a person for
parole without a showing of contrition.
which judges would be guided but
not bound by sentencing guidelines, in which they would impose determinate sentences
not subject to adjustment by a
parole board, and in which their sentences would be subject to appellate review for reasonableness and proportionality
Secondly, in Bird v Canada (National
Parole Board), 2007 NBQB 96 (Bird) the court declined jurisdiction because the inmate had
not exhausted alternative remedies, and costs were $ 950.
These offices include, but are
not limited to: departments of corrections; violent crimes compensations
boards;
parole boards; judges, prosecutors, probation departments, and the Attorney General in reference to a bail hearing or sentencing; a judge in regards to that judge's decision to allow the person to join a supervisory treatment program; and finally the Superior Court may permit the inspection or release of expunged or sealed files in certain circumstances.
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.
Thereafter the
Parole Board's duty was to consider whether or
not it was safe to release the prisoner, despite finding the original licence breach to be unfounded.
At an oral hearing the
Parole Board was persuaded that the equipment was faulty and that Gulliver had
not breached the terms of his licence.
The duties of the
parole board were
not merely to review the recall decision.
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.
The way prisoners are assessed for suitability for release may have to be radically overhauled after the High Court ruled that the
Parole Board was
not sufficiently independent of the government.