Sentences with phrase «parole review»

Since the abolition of «accelerated parole review» constituted «punishment» (substantially increased the risk of additional incarceration), the offenders were entitled to the «lesser» punishment under Section 11 (i).

Offenders who were convicted and sentenced after the enactment of the Abolition of Early Parole Act are entitled to the previous «accelerated parole review» regime.

For Juriansz J.A., the government provided no explanation to justify retrospective repeal of «accelerated parole review».

Before it was stamped out, the accelerated parole review provision made first - time, non-violent offenders eligible for parole review after they served one - sixth or six months of their sentence, whichever was longest.

Clyne responded by coming up with a letter Soares had written in April to the Rhode Island Parole Review Board.

The challenge to the Lord Chancellor's statutory instrument concerned legal aid availability for pre-tariff parole reviews, issues surrounding mother and baby units, category A reviews, sentencing planning work, governor adjudications and reviews of licence conditions.

Following a full hearing, the Court of Appeal held that the current system was unreasonable for some of the issues on which the legal aid availability challenge was brought, for example, pre-tariff parole reviews.

Not exact matches

The suit argued that the parole board failed to review minutes from Bell's threatening and unrepentant sentencing statement, and also neglected to get input from victim family members opposed to parole.

The judge added that he himself reviewed Diane Piagentini's victim impact statement and Bell's sentencing remarks — and still found that the parole board had been within its discretion in voting to free Bell.

A man who was 16 years old when he fatally strangled his girlfriend almost 40 years ago is entitled to a new parole board review that takes into consideration his age at the time of his crime, a divided upstate court has ruled.

At the same time, Schneiderman formed a Conviction Review Committee» that reviews parole recommendations.

Increase bandwidth of parole board members to ensure that cases are reviewed in person and with the thoughtfulness they deserve.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Michael Jai White Stars in Straight - to - Video Street Fight DVD Drama After Isaiah Bone (Michael Jai White) is paroled from the penitentiary he has a hard time finding a legit line of work so he can provide for his loyal and patient wife, Tamara (Nona Gaye).

Berlin Review: Forest Whitaker Impresses As Paroled Criminal In Uneven «Two Men In Town,» A Remake At War With Itself

, which comes from 2011's fantastic Conditions Of My Parole (review).

restrict the right to an oral hearing in cases where the individual is seeking judicial review of a prior judicial decision, such as the decision of a bench of lay magistrates or the parole board.

- Reduction of the scope of prison law to cases that engage Articles 5.4 (the right to have ongoing detention reviewed) and 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights, such as Parole Board review hearings, some sentencing matters and adjudication hearings for disciplinary matters.

This means that legal aid has been restored in three main areas: pre-tariff reviews by the Parole Board, category - A reviews and decisions on placing inmates in close supervision centres.

Advice and representation for pre-tariff reviews for life and indeterminate sentence prisoners before the Parole Board;

This means that the Court of Appeal's decision will stand and the government has confirmed that legal aid for prisoners will be restored by February 2018 in three main areas: pre-tariff reviews by the Parole Board, category - A reviews and decisions on placing inmates in close supervision centres.

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 sentencing).

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

Until the two - day judicial review hearing, very little was known about John Worboys» 10 years» in custody - and the reasons why the Parole Board granted his release.

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 reParole Board du Canada for reviews following the suspension, termination or revocation of parole or statutory reparole or statutory release.

The duties of the parole board were not merely to review the recall decision.

-- Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 943.10 (1), (2), (3), (6), (7), (8), or (9); member of the Florida Commission on Offender Review or any administrative aide or supervisor employed by the commission; county probation officer; parole and probation supervisor; personnel or representative of the Department of Law Enforcement; or other person legally authorized to execute process in the execution of legal process or in the lawful execution of any legal duty, without offering or doing violence to the person of the officer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

Issues raised during the case included the government's refusal to fund interviews with the prisoner conducted by the Parole Board as part of the risk assessment procedure, and the making of rules by the government about the manner in which the Parole Board conducted reviews.

However, the MoJ launched a consultation last week, Reconsideration of Parole Board decisions: creating a new and open system, on a judge - led review process that would operate within the Parole Board's current structures but be «properly protected and distinct».

The existence of measures to allow and encourage a person servicing a sentence of imprisonment for public protection imposed under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003), s 225 to progress is as inherent in the justification for his continued detention as the Parole Board reviews themselves; without them detention falls to be condemned as unlawful as if there were no such reviews at all.

Thus the existence of measures to allow and encourage the IPP prisoner to progress was as inherent in the justification for his continued detention as are the Parole Board reviews themselves; and without them that detention fell to be condemned as unlawful as sure as if there were no such reviews.

The proposals are the direct result of an urgent government review into the policy and procedures of Parole Board decisions, which began in January 2018.

Periodic reviews by the Parole Board — or any person or institution — only had value to the extent that they were informed by up - to - date information about the prisoner's progress.