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Ninth Circuit: California Lifers Have A Liberty Interest In Parole
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals crushed a determined attempt by the California Board of Prison Terms (BPT-- now called the Board of Parole Hearings) to transmogrify the California Supreme Court?s decision in In re Dannenberg, 34 Cal. 4th 1061 (2005) to stand for the proposition that California?s lifer ...
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- Joe Arpaio: America’s Toughest Sheriff or Most Corrupt?, by Alex Friedmann
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- Florida Warden Susceptible to Liability in Valdes’ Murder; Suit Settles for $1,169,923.42, by David Reutter
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- Cunningham v. California: Who’s Covered and Who’s Not?, by Kent A. Russell
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- China’s Death Penalty On Wheels, by Gary Hunter
- Sheriff’s Deputies Charged in Prisoner’s Death; Both Get Prison Time, by Gary Hunter
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- California DOC Federal Receiver Is Granted First Waiver of State Law, by John Dannenberg
- North Carolina Enacts Innocence Inquiry Commission, by John Dannenberg
- Three Work-Release Van Drivers Escape from Arkansas Prison; Practice Discontinued, by Gary Hunter
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- Bernard Kerik Pleads Guilty; Has Name Removed From New York City Jail, by Gary Hunter
- Alabama Spends $500,000 to Vaccinate State Prisoners, by Gary Hunter
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- New Jersey Phone Rates Out of Control, by Gary Hunter
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- Appeals Court Reverses Summary Judgment of Washington Phone Suit
- Pennsylvania Work-Release Program Criticized, by Gary Hunter
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- California DOC Ordered to Comply with Overdue Suicide Prevention Measures, by Marvin Mentor
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