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Texas Cannot Use Enhancement to Deny Mandatory Supervision
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2002, page 29
The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has held that the fact that a felony has been enhanced to a higher degree felony cannot be used to deny a prisoner mandatory supervision release (MSR). Nathaniel Elbert Coleman, a Texas state prisoner, was convicted of drug possession and retaliation, enhanced by …
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