board of pardons and parole

• Louis Mickens-Thomas Appellant v. Donald Vaughn, Superintendent; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons; the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Appellant., 321 F.3d 374 (3rd Cir. 2003)

Leonard N. Sosnov (Argued), Wyndmoor, PA, David Rudovsky, Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing, Philadelphia, PA, for Louis Mickens-Thomas. Syndi L. G...

• Federal Circuits

• Board of Pardons and Parole -- Appointment -- Powers and procedures -- Governor's powers and duties -- Legislature's powers

• Utah Constitution

• Violent Criminals Can Get Back in Parole Line

By Elizabeth Benton Register Staff Gov. M. Jodi Rell has directed the state Board of Pardons and Parole to resume processing parole applications for violent offenders following the enactment of a new criminal justice law.

• New Haven Register
• July 29, 2010

• Louis Mickens-Thomas, Appellant v. Donald Vaughn; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons; the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania., 355 F.3d 294 (3rd Cir. 2004)

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Ronald L. Buckwalter, J. Leonard N. Sosnov (Argued), Wyndmoor,...

• Federal Circuits

• Board of pardons and paroles; parole laws; reprieves, commutations, and pardons; remission of fines and forfeitures

• Texas Constitution

• Board of Pardons and Parole.

Governor Huntsman has selected KEITH N. HAMILTON to serve on the Board of Pardons and Parole. Hamilton returns to the board, having served from 1997-2...

• Utah Business
• Vol. 19 Nbr. 10, October 2005

• Louis J. Malek, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H.L. (Pete) Haun, Chairman, Utah Board of Pardons and Parole; Don Blanchard, Member, Utah Board of Pardons and Paul Larsen, Hearing Officer/Staff Member, Utah Board of Pardons, in Their Individual and Official Capacities, Defendants-Appellees., 26 F.3d 1013 (10th Cir. 1994)

Louis J. Malek, pro se. Before LOGAN, SETH and BARRETT, Circuit Judges. BARRETT, Senior Circuit Judge. After examining the briefs and the appellate r...

• Federal Circuits

• Gary S. Mayes, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nevin C. Trammell, Chairman, Board of Pardons & Paroles, and Members of the Tennessee Parole Board, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees., 751 F.2d 175 (6th Cir. 1984)

Susan Kay (argued), Mark S. Anderson, Vanderbilt Law School, Vanderbilt Legal Clinic, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant. William M. Leech, At...

• Federal Circuits

• 'Natural Life' in Prison for Child Killer Allen

Convicted child killer Steven Ray Allen will spend the rest of his life in prison. The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole announced a "natural life" sentence recently for the 62-year-old.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 02, 2009

• The Lena Baker Story: Execution in a Small Town

At her trial, [Lena Baker] explained how [Ernest B. Knight] approached her house and forced her to go with him on that Saturday evening of April 29. Baker had been warned by the county sheriff to stay away from Knight or that she was going to be thrown in jail, too; she was afraid of physical abuse by Knight (and once even Knight's son had given her a terrible beating with a warning to stay away from his father). Therefore, as soon as she could, Baker gave Knight the slip and spent the night sleeping in the woods near the convict camp. On her way back into Cuthbert the next morning, Knight cornered her again and this time took her to the mill house and locked her in while he went to a "singing" (a form of religious celebration in the South) with his son. Baker soon became fed up with sp...

... reprieve by then Governor Arnall, but the Board of Pardons and Parole denied clemency when they he...

• Westside Gazette
• August 22, 2009