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GA Parole Rules Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on April 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1994, page 12
Stephen Sultenfuss is a Georgia state prisoner serving sentences for two drug convictions. Under the rules of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole (GBPP) he should have served 10 months in prison. Disregarding their own rules the GBPP imposed a period of 62 months of incarceration before parole. Sultenfuss …
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