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Insufficient Facts to Support Exceptional Terms
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1991, page 7
Insufficient Facts To Support Exceptional TermsDivision One of the Washington State Court of Appeals has vacated an exceptional term imposed by the parole board due to insufficient facts in the record to support the sentence imposed by the board.
Luis Vega, while incarcerated at the Reformatory, participated in an …
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