Sentences with phrase «give parole boards»

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Shockingly, his Parole Board just let three - time convicted cop killer Herman Bell walk free, and with the stroke of a pen he unilaterally gave convicted rapists and murderers out on parole the right to vote and influence our elecParole Board just let three - time convicted cop killer Herman Bell walk free, and with the stroke of a pen he unilaterally gave convicted rapists and murderers out on parole the right to vote and influence our elecparole the right to vote and influence our elections.

«Sadly, the governor's appointed members of the New York State Parole Board have proven to be out of touch by giving the green light to release unrepentant cop killer Herman Bell from prison.

Former Nyack detective Arthur Keenan, who survived the 1981 Brinks murders and robbery, said he gave an hour - and -15-minute victim - impact statement to a New York parole board Friday with a simple purpose: Keep getaway driver Judith Clark in prison.

He also paid $ 70,000 in restitution and gave up $ 90,000 in his personal collection, according to the transcript of his parole board hearing.

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.

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.

If an originalist were now to view parole boards as the modern loci for historic clemency powers — and that is a big IF — such an originalist might have structural concerns with any legislative efforts to entirely eliminate a parole board's authority to give relief to certain offenders.