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After a firestorm of controversy, the state’s parole board will soon resume commutation hearings under a new policy of reducing the sentences of serious criminals. The intense controversy on the ...
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Every U.S. state also has a parole board. The autonomy of the board from the state governor also varies; in some states the boards are more powerful than in others. In some states the board is an independent agency while in others it is a body of the department of corrections. In 44 states, the parole members are chosen by the governor.
Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case that provided for a hearing, before a "neutral and detached" hearing body such as a parole board, to determine the factual basis for parole violations. This hearing is colloquially known as a "Morrissey hearing." The hearing can take place with the defendant in or out of custody.
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The Ohio Parole Board voted 5-0 Feb. 26 to parole Lavonia Spann, a Mansfield man who fatally stabbed his live-in girlfriend 31 times in a fit of rage on Thanksgiving Day 1993.
Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972) The Supreme Court extended Fourteenth Amendment due process protection to the parole revocation process, hold that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a "neutral and detached" hearing body such as a parole board to give an evidentiary hearing prior to revoking the parole of a defendant and ...
The Ohio Parole Board has denied parole for a Stark County man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered 9-year-old Glenna Rose Brammer in southeast Canton in 1987.. The board voted 5-0 on ...