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Federal Parolee Has Right to Hearing Under 18 USC § 4211(a)(2)
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1999, page 25
Federal Parolee Has Right to Hearing Under 18 USC § 4211(a)(2)The Seventh Circuit court of appeals has held that a pre-Guidelines federal parolee has the right to a hearing under 18 U.S.C. § 4211(a)(2), five years after release, to determine whether the United States Parole Commission should terminate supervision.
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