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ValdostaToday.com
April 13, 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and David Perdue, R-Ga., praised the Senate passage of a resolution they offered honoring the life of former U.S. Senator and Georgia Governor Zell Miller. Miller passed away on March 23, 2018, in Young Harris, Ga., at the age of 86. The resolutionÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
April 12, 2018
However, because of a pretrial agreement with his command, the 26th Air Force, the 21-year-old airman from Valdosta, Georgia, will be eligible for parole sometime in the future. ... Despite the possibility of parole, she said she's determined to be there if a parole board ever considers releasing Wilsey.
WAFF
April 4, 2018
A warrant was issued for John Scroggins of Rossville, Georgia, on March 30, after it was determined that he had not been granted permission by the Georgia Pardon and Parole Board to relocate to Alabama. Scroggins, a parolee, also failed to register as a sex offender in DeKalb County. When deputiesÃâà...
KeysNews.com
April 3, 2018
The Georgia Office of Victim Services will print letters and petitions to present to the parole board when it considers Hinton's parole again in 2020. “Community views and input is considered,” wrote Steve Hayes, spokesman with the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. “The board is made aware ofÃâà...
Law.com
April 2, 2018
I recognize the Georgia Supreme Court held in 1998 that a sentence of life without parole does not impinge on the authority of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant ... A constitutional amendment established an independent constitutional parole board, and that power still exists in Georgia today.
Tuscaloosa News
April 1, 2018
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only authority in Georgia with the power to commute a death sentence, declined March 14 to spare his life after holding a closed-door hearing to listen to arguments for and against clemency. Appeals filed by Gary's attorneys with state and federal courts wereÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 31, 2018
Parole Board to Host Victim Visitor Days in Clarkston ... (AP) — The Georgia parole board invites crime victims to meet with board members. The State Board of Pardons and Paroles plans to hold victim visitor days on April 11 and April 12 at Georgia Piedmont Technical College Conference Center inÃâà...
WTOC
March 23, 2018
Miller was inaugurated as the 79th Governor of Georgia on January 14, 1991. He served two terms as governor from 1991 to 1999. He also served as a Georgia State Senator from 1961-1964, a member of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles from 1973-1975, and then Lieutenant Governor of GeorgiaÃâà...
MyAJC
March 16, 2018
Gary's eyes were closed as witnesses filed into the execution chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison near Jackson. He never even glanced at .... On Wednesday, Martin spent three hours with the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, seeking clemency for Gary. The appeal wasÃâà...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
March 16, 2018
28, the Georgia Department of Corrections sets Gary's execution for 7 p.m. March 15, at the Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, and the state board of Pardons and Paroles schedules his clemency hearing to begin at 9 a.m. March 14 in Atlanta. March 14, the parole board declines to stay Gary'sÃâà...
WZTV
March 1, 2018
FOX 17 News interviewed Brown's prosecutor Jeff Burks by Facetime from Georgia where he now works. “You never tried to argue Mr. Allen didn't pick her up ... "The parole board needs to bring them back up and review any other circumstances that have come up," Rep. Faison said. "Let's look at it again. Society, what if it'sÃâà...
MyAJC
March 1, 2018
Gary has remained on Georgia's Death Row for decades primarily because of the extraordinary path his appeals took after newly-discovered physical evidence raised questions about his 1986 conviction. It was the questions about that DNA evidence that saved him from execution in December 2009.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 26, 2018
Records from Georgia show that it typically takes that state less than 20 minutes to prepare an inmate for lethal injection, although there have been exceptions. ... Greg Abbott accepted the recommendation of the state's parole board and granted clemency for Thomas “Bart” Whitaker , on death row forÃâà...
Deadline
February 21, 2018
The argument is that California law differs from Georgia law, so in California, Miller is being treated as a parolee and not a probationer. ... required for defendants sentenced to probation while the defendant is in the legal custody of the Department of Corrections or the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
The Citizen.com
February 19, 2018
In the 1950's Mr. Caldwell served as the first Chief of Upson County Police and became a revenue agent for Georgia Department of Revenue. Then in 1961 he became a parole officer for the Pardons and Parole Board for the State of Georgia. In 1967 he served as warden for several institutions with theÃâà...
The Union-Recorder
February 14, 2018
He began employment with the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles in 1987 as a Parole Officer. He has received promotions to assistant chief parole officer, chief parole officer, Northeast Regional Director, assistant director of Field Operations and, most recently, Clemency Division director.
The Augusta Chronicle
February 13, 2018
The state made no efforts to contact the Georgia Department of Corrections, (the Board of Pardons and Paroles) nor the local prosecutor in Georgia, who prosecuted the case, concerning the parole eligibility of the defendant,” he wrote. The new solicitor for Edgefield County, Rick Hubbard, did not returnÃâà...
Times-Georgian
January 31, 2018
Although persons convicted of felonies have their right to vote automatically restored at the end of their sentence, they must petition the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to be able to seek public office. During the hearing, Powell's attorney showed that a felony case against Powell had later been reducedÃâà...
Valdosta Daily Times
December 31, 1999
Phillips received a life sentence in Colquitt County Superior Court but the state prosecution failed to seek the statute that would have denied him parole; however, the state parole board repeatedly denied Phillips parole, stating the trial court's sentence held the intention of denying him parole, Dennis said.
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