Sentences with phrase «parole requests»

About 65 % of the approved parole requests were granted after a meal.

However, when judges took breaks, the difference in the granting of parole requests minimized.

He references the research done on Israeli judges handling parole requests.

Parole requests are tough decisions, with potentially disastrous consequences if a dangerous criminal is allowed out.

Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel and Columbia University examined more than 1,000 decisions by eight Israeli judges who ruled on convicts» parole requests.

(His parole request was denied for the eighth time).

The article, by Randal S. Olson, a «computer programmer turned computational biologist,» demonstrates that a judge is significantly more likely to grant a defendant a parole request right after a meal (breakfast, a snack, lunch) than right before a meal.

Not exact matches

«In spite of many favorable factors, we find all to be outweighed by the premeditated and celebrity seeking nature of the crime,» the New York Board of Parole said in a statement on Monday rejecting Chapman's request.

Mark David Chapman, 61, will remain behind bars at a maximum - security prison in Erie County near Buffalo, New York, after his request for parole was rejected for the ninth time since 2000.

A parole board will hear Ms. Brown's request later this month.

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 funds, obtained from a parolee who was found by NYS Parole officers to be in possession of $ 16,800 from a personal injury settlement, were secured after the Counsels» Office filed two petitions in Erie County Family Court requesting that the money be turned over to pay arrears accrued in the two cases.

A state appellate court has determined the Board of Parole erred in rejecting a 54 - year - old convict's 2014 request for release when it failed to weigh the significance of the fact that he was 16 when he committed the murder that landed him in prison 37 years ago.

The Orangetown Town Board has again gone unanimously on record requesting the New York State Parole Board to deny the parole application bids submitted by the two convicted killers of 16 - year - old Pearl River High School student Paula Bohovesky 37 yearParole Board to deny the parole application bids submitted by the two convicted killers of 16 - year - old Pearl River High School student Paula Bohovesky 37 yearparole application bids submitted by the two convicted killers of 16 - year - old Pearl River High School student Paula Bohovesky 37 years ago.

During this time, the board accepted 21.3 per cent of requests for parole from life sentence offenders, who include rapists and murderers.

Prisoners serving more than four years but less than a life sentence were also less likely to be released on parole, the figures show, with the proportion of accepted requests falling from 49 per cent last year to 35.7 per cent in the latest six - month period.

The plot thickens when his recently - paroled, sterile sibling (Antonio de la Torre) requests that he impregnate his girlfriend (Marta Etura) for him.

Kahneman explained that «During the two hours or so until the judges» next feeding, the approval rate drops steadily, to about zero just before the meal... Tired and hungry judges tend to fall back on their default position of denying requests for parole.»

To date, 47 states have adopted post-conviction DNA testing statutes; some have imposed additional limitations that hinder applicants from obtaining testing, such as prohibiting applications from those (1) that have plead guilty; (2) that have admitted to guilt in order to obtain parole; (3) whose attorneys did not request testing; (4) convicted of crimes for which relief could be sought; (5) who are sentenced to death; (6) who are able to establish a likelihood rather than a possibility the testing will be exculpatory; (7) where there are clear and convincing evidence that the new results would be significantly more discriminating than the results of previous testing; or (8) that fail to provide adequate safeguards to preserve biological evidence.

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