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Arizona Governor Must Personally Decide Prisoner Clemency Denials
Loaded on July 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2003, page 23
The Arizona Supreme Court held that the governor must personally and timely decide denials of unanimous Clemency Board recommendations to commute prisoners' sentences under that state's Disproportionality Review Act. In one case, after finding the governor had not so acted, an Arizona man was released from prison. In 1990, Kevin …
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