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Supreme Court Turns Back Parole Challenge
Loaded on July 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1995, page 1
In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Morales v. California DOC, 16 F.3d 1001 (9th Cir. 1994). The appeals court held that a California statute that was modified to allow for parole hearings every three years instead of every year violated the Ex Post Facto provisions of the ...
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