Sentences with phrase «granted parole»

The study found that prisoners who appeared early in the morning were granted parole around 70 per cent of the time, while those who appeared in the afternoon were granted parole less than 10 per cent of the time.

Hinse was sentenced to 15 years in prison for armed robbery in 1964, and was granted parole after serving five years.

Joseph Lavigne, a client of the West Virginia Innocence Project at the WVU College of Law, has been granted parole.

On July 28, our client, Tyrone Jones, was among the first of Pennsylvania's juvenile lifers to be granted parole.

As well, the report, entitled Spirit Matters: Aboriginal People and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, shows that aboriginal inmates are sentenced to longer terms, spend more time in segregation and maximum security and are less likely to be granted parole.

Scientific witnesses are often asked to give probability estimates for certain events, outcomes, or hypotheses, such as the probability of a DNA match or the probability that a convicted offender will reoffend if granted parole.

After each meal, the proportion of people granted parole increased.

After spending nearly five decades in Shawangunk Correctional Facility in upstate New York, Bell, 70, was granted parole and could be released as early as April 17.

After brainstorming a few different scenarios, we settled on a situation where the students would decide if an inmate should be granted parole or remain in prison.

Sentenced to 19 years in prison for stealing bread to feed his sister's sick son, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), prisoner 24601, is granted parole.

Kokabee was granted parole — known as «conditional freedom» — and released from custody in Iran at the approval of the Iranian judiciary on 29 August after serving more than five years of a 10 - year sentence, he confirmed in an email exchange.

He singled out Herman Bell, a cop killer who was recently granted parole — as did Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, the front - runner for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, who accused Cuomo of being a dictator.

Lorello served almost two years in state prison and was granted parole in 2010.

Today's statistics show a fall of nearly half in the number of prisoners in England and Wales granted parole - of the 901 who applied only 106 were released early.

Sentenced to 25 years to life for assassinating a pair of patrolmen in a 1971 ambush shooting in Harlem, Bell had been granted parole in March.

Who would have thought that a 70 - year - old former Black Panther, granted parole after 45 years in prison for the 1971 killing of two New York City police officers, would bring you two together?

The son of disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi said his father realizes his mistakes and wants to move forward now that he has been granted parole after serving 18 months in prison.

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.

Herman Bell, who, along with two other members of the Black Liberation Army, shot and killed two NYPD officers outside a housing project in Harlem in 1971, has been granted parole.

Bell, now 70, was granted parole after finally admitting that he isn't a «political prisoner» — just a murderer.

Herman Bell, a 70 - year - old Black Liberation Army member who's been behind bars nearly 50 years for killing two cops in the 1970s, has been granted parole, authorities said.

Even progressive de Blasio thinks cop - killer Herman Bell, 70, shouldn't have been granted parole, saying: «I'm very troubled by it.

Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after convincing a parole board that he has repented after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel - room heist.

Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after convincing a parole board... More

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he strongly disagrees with a parole board's decision to grant parole to Herman Bell, an ex-radical convicted in the 1971 killings of two police officers.

Former Nyack, N.Y., detective Arthur Keenan survived the infamous 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet, N.Y.. On Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, he gave an impact statement against granting parole to Judith Clark, the Brinks getaway driver.

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

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he strongly disagrees with a parole board's decision to grant parole to an ex-radical convicted in the 1971 killings of two police officers.

Already in the primary, Nixon has been credited with pushing Cuomo to the left on some issues, including his executive order granting paroled felons the right to vote in the state.

Here he is a convicted arsonist (and murderer) trying to manipulate a corrections officer (Robert De Niro) into granting him parole by using his casually promiscuous wife (Milla Jovovich) as bait in this taut thriller set in the recession decimated suburbs of Detroit and the State Prison of Southern Michigan.

The judges were more likely to grant parole in the morning than in the afternoon.

For example, one well publicized study showed that judges (highly trained professionals) are much more likely to grant parole to defendants at the beginning of the day, or after a snack, than those who appear before them when they are hungry.

That study found that judges were more likely to grant parole early in the day or right after lunch.

This is demonstrated in a study that examined the time of day during which judges are most likely to grant 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

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The Howerton's worked with state representatives and the Haitian government to grant humanitarian parole to children who were already matched with adoptive families.

Ever since the New York State Parole Board granted the release of Herman Bell, the Black Liberation Army member who killed NYPD cops Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini in 1971, PBA President Pat Lynch has performed handsprings and cartwheels to delay Bell's release.

Donna Hylton, who was paroled from Bedford Hills two - and - a-half years ago after spending 27 years in prison for murder, said Cuomo's refusal to grant clemency makes the penal system only about punishment, not rehabilitation.

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.

From 1992 to 2014, only six inmates granted medical parole in New York returned to prison.

Cuomo has defended granting clemency for Clark, which makes her eligible for parole this year, pointing to her personal transformation in prison and charity work.

District attorneys whose offices were involved in the prosecution of Bower urged the Parole Board to re-examine its decision to grant Bower release and disagreed with Schellhammer's initial findings.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) will be granting all convicted felons in the state who are on parole a pardon, a move that will restore voting rights to more than 35,000 people.

Here, Maxwell, 66, tells The Post's Philip Messing why Gov. Cuomo's decision to grant clemency to the getaway driver, Judith Clark — setting the stage for her parole — is an outrage, particularly since she was no bit player in the bloody holdup.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for reelection and faces a Democratic primary challenge from actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, promised to grant 35,000 felons currently on parole in New York State the right to vote.

NY Gov. Cuomo grants 3,500 paroled felons the right to vote; Washington, D.C., may allow 16 - year - olds to vote in the 2020 presidential election.

Under government plans to be unveiled on Wednesday, High Court judges will be able to decide when a prisoner is freed meaning convicts will no longer be granted an automatic right to parole halfway through their sentence.

Kudos to the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for winning a temporary stay of the parole granted to three - time cop - killer Herman Bell.

Mr. Cuomo has pushed his own progressive record, including raising the minimum wage and creating a paid family leave program, as he has pressed forward on new liberal initiatives, most notably promising to restore voting rights to former felons on parole by simultaneously granting 35,000 pardons.

A Nevada parole board granted.