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Prince was appointed to the Pardon and Parole Board in January 2023. "Mr. Prince will be a steward of justice for the people of Oklahoma," Gov. Kevin Stitt said in making the appointment.
The Legislature in 2023 rescinded the statute requiring at least one member of each Parole Board decision panel to be a permanent member. William Morris covers courts for the Des Moines Register.
A state parole board member resigned Monday after recommending the release of a man who a day later attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son while he ...
[126] [131] [132] Coleman again went before a parole board on December 8, 2020. Christian's and Newsom's mothers and Christian's father gave statements to the board opposing parole. The seven board members voted unanimously to deny Coleman parole and ensure that she would not be eligible to go before a parole board again for ten years. [111] [133]
Initially known as the United States Board of Parole, [2] the board had three members and was established by legislation on May 13, 1930 as an independent board. The first chairperson was Arthur DeLacy Wood. As a result of an order of the Attorney General, the Board began reporting directly to him in August 1945.
A state parole panel has blocked the release of former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus, reversing an earlier decision that could have freed her from a life sentence for the 1986 murder of her ex ...
United States law professor Daniel Medwed says convicts who go before a parole board maintaining their innocence are caught in a catch-22 that he calls "the innocent prisoner’s dilemma". [1] A false admission of guilt and remorse by an innocent person at a parole hearing may prevent a later investigation proving their innocence.
Susan Smith, in prison for the cold-blooded 1994 murders of her two young sons, is hoping to be granted parole later this month -- but the parole board has been deluged dozens of letters of ...