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Response To Critic Of Sentencing Law. Legal Counsel to Governor Jim Hunt. Columnist Bill Noblitt recently wrote that North Carolina's new Fair Sentencing Law ... sentence he wanted to, without giving any reason. The new law prescribes a ...
LAW IS PROPOSED TO CHECK CHIME INDETERMINATE SENTENCE LAW IS ADVOCATED BY REFORM l-:it.-' AT CAPITOL. Friends and opponent's of the Indeterminate sentence gathered in the room of the Connscttcut Prison association before the prison ...
... sentence would have covered a span of years, say one to 10, with the possibility of parole after a few months in jail. Now there is no parole. Indiana also has a fixed-sentence law, effective next July. And California is about to get ...
... sentence law, passed eight years ago, was found invalid for the lack of provisions to It Into effect. A bill re-enacting this law was passed finally by the, House Saturday. Under the measure a convict becomes eligible for parole after ...
... law and turns enforcement efforts into a farce." • Judge Lamb's Opinion "I am fundamentally opposed to both the intermediate sentence law and the parole system," remarked Judge Lamb.' 1 believe that better results would be obatined, If ...
... sentence, which is denied under the indeterminate sentence law. He said: "Since the time that the indeterminate sentence law has fixed the punishment of criminals, taking that important factor away from the courts, the reformatory at ...
... sentence which he erved, rved, he was finally released because of loubts ubts as to the constitutional authority or r such detention. Connecticut nc« s a parole law applicable to convicts, t when Miner received his final commitment ...
... law violation has its min Imum sentence," Draper said, "and its maximum sentence. There is no such thing as a suspended sentence outside the federal courts. "A boy frequently in his teens makes one misstep. He is guilty beyond a shadow ...
INDETERMINATE SENTENCES. THE LAW A MERE SCARECROW. When the indeterminate sentence wns adopted as part of the Victorian prison system it was thought we had nceom- plishcd n great measure of criminal reform. Thc Intermediate Sentence Act ...
... sentence. The sentence was upheld by the Nevada Supreme Court, but a federal trial judge in 1983 ruled that the state's mandatory death sentence law is invalid. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed last June 12 that the Nevada ...