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U.S. Parole Commission Bound by Own Rules
Loaded on June 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2000, page 28
The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) was bound by its own rules and erred in calculating a prisoner's parole eligibility date. Former CIA agent Edwin Wilson was convicted in 1982 of transporting firearms in interstate commerce for the purpose of committing …
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