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Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, 442 U.S. 1 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that when state law requires the state to grant parole whenever a prisoner satisfies certain conditions, due process requires the state to allow the prisoner to present evidence in support of his request for parole and to furnish a written ...
A parole board consists of people qualified to make judgements about the suitability of a prisoner for return to free society. Members may be judges , psychiatrists , or criminologists , although some jurisdictions do not have written qualifications for parole board members and allow community members to serve as them.
The "United States Parole Commission Extension and Sentencing Commission Authority Act of 2005", Pub. L. No. 109-76, 119 Stat. 2035, extended the life of the USPC until November 2008. The "United States Parole Commission Extension Act of 2008", Pub. L. No. 110-312, 122 Stat. 3013, extended the life of the USPC until November 2011.
The California Court of Appeal upheld Lyle and Erik's murder convictions in 1998 and the Supreme Court of California declined to review the case later that same year.
If the parole board approves their release, California Gov Gavin Newsom could still reject it. The Menendez brothers filed a motion in May 2023 detailing the new evidence in their case and asking ...
In a document detailing the decision, the Parole Board said: “After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress that Mr Salvador has made while in custody and the evidence ...
Federal parole in the United States is a system that is implemented by the United States Parole Commission.Persons eligible for federal parole include persons convicted under civilian federal law of offenses which were committed on or before November 1, 1987, persons convicted under District of Columbia law for offenses committed before August 5, 2000, "transfer treaty" inmates, persons who ...
The Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Thursday he will ask the court Friday for resentencing in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez, decades after the brothers were ...