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... changed its policies in regard to its commutation procedures in a manner that violates the Ex Post F... are subject to the same ex post facto test as changes in parole procedures--a generous assump...
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...Tests for interaction between sex and race, marital stat...
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..., however, failed to meet the OMB commutation test to become part of that metropolitan area. Sim...
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...The Boyde test is not a harmless-error test at all. It merely ask... it was not to consider the Governor's commutation power in reaching its verdict. Thus, the full jury...
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In 1676 the Quakers bought West New Jersey and wrote into its charter a pacifist military policy.7 In 1703, however, West and East New Jersey merged and a new militia law required military service.8 But when a sympathetic jury refused to convict any of the Quakers who refused to enter military service, the militia law lost support and was not renewed.9 All subsequent New Jersey militia acts contained exemptions specifically for Quakers.10 When Virginia Quakers refused to participate in hostilities during the French and Indian War of 1756, Colonel George Washington was so impressed with the depth and sincerity of their beliefs that he released the Quakers from confinement and essentially relieved them of their service commitment.11 As Quakers and other pacifists12 continued to resist mil...
... service if they could either pay a commutation fee of $300 or provide a suitable substitute to se..., the Court laid out the three-pronged test to determine if a government action violated the E...
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.... . to grant reprieves, commutation of sentences and pardons. . . ." Pa. Const. art. I...19 (citing A000522-A000525, testimony of Mark Singel)); Appellees' Br. 43.)3 . On...
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... is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of this court the abstract opinion... to the possibility of parole or commutation or otherwise more rapid release, no matter how muc...
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...After respondent's request for commutation was denied, he sought habeas relief in Federal Dis...The test in Rummel which we rejected would have required us...
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... such areas, overpayments and trivial commutation lump sums, in relation to which draft Regulations ... the error should also meet a reasonableness test, then the wording of the draft Regulations risks u...
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..., however, failed to meet the OMB commutation test to become part of that metropolitan area. Sim...