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  • Referring to Sunday's boisterous Maple Leaf Gardens rally in Toronto, when 15,000 Communists staged a hysterical welcome for their leader Tim Buck, jailed for seditious conspiracy but paroled Saturday from Kingston's Portsmouth Penitentiary, Mr. Griffen expressed himself alarmed by the Government's "caving in to pressure" in the form of a petition signed by 200,000 "deluded bleeding hearts."†   (source)
  • Tony and the other two defendants had all been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.†   (source)
  • There are nearly six million people on probation or on parole.†   (source)
  • The weddings I went to usually had to separate the bride's and groom's families for fear of someone breaching the terms of their parole.†   (source)
  • The sentence was one year in jail with the possibility of parole in six months.†   (source)
  • To keep him on for when she come up for parole.†   (source)
  • "IT'S LIKE BEING ON PAROLE," he said.†   (source)
  • Or that I would have to see some kind of school parole officer named Dell Duke.†   (source)
  • I'm going to make that very clear to the parole board, and to his lawyer.†   (source)
  • I thought he was on a parole, that he had to stay in New York.†   (source)
  • The captains was bitter at having to leave his tug; Ender and Graff felt like prisoners finally paroled from jail.†   (source)
  • Why don't we tell her that you have a terribly pressing engagement with your parole officer.†   (source)
  • Foster care was educational—in a "five to seven years with the possibility of parole" kind of way.†   (source)
  • Sofia on parole, she say.†   (source)
  • Now, on parole but in the world, he wants to be a father to his three teenaged children and an active participant in the communities of imagination and hope we've been working hard toward.†   (source)
  • Carver's going to be on parole for a while, but that's no big deal, he's never even had a parking ticket.†   (source)
  • I had uncharitable thoughts of prison inmates, lifers, afraid to get out, terrified of being paroled, terrified of change, terrified of facing a new life outside barbed wire and guard towers.†   (source)
  • So I'm thinking maybe you deserve a parole for good behavior.†   (source)
  • The same day he entered the facility, he had submitted an application for parole, with no great optimism.†   (source)
  • Under the circumstances, they approved an early parole for him.†   (source)
  • Your sentence is parole—you must work for the good of this community, and stay on your best behavior, for one year.†   (source)
  • Sabotage itself now carried a minimum penalty of five years without parole and a maximum of death.†   (source)
  • Criminals who would have previously been set free—for drug-related offenses and parole revocation in particular—were instead locked up.†   (source)
  • That stupid guy had been paroled briefly to serve as director at Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • Andrea had no trouble getting dates with tattooed men who drove Harleys, or drunks who hung out at the Clipper, or guys on parole, but she was never able to get a date with men who had steady jobs.†   (source)
  • "Right, but he's eligible for parole at eight and a third."†   (source)
  • After which, I may say, he seemed to regard himself as on parole, and dried up.†   (source)
  • But then it dawns on him that any prospect of parole might be changed by this work/release cancellation.†   (source)
  • "I'm paroled.†   (source)
  • He'll be serving two life sentences without parole.†   (source)
  • There were some questions from the Parole Board.†   (source)
  • The letter went immediately off to Philadelphia, where, as it happened, General John Sullivan arrived that same day, September 2, having been temporarily paroled by Lord Howe to deliver a peace overture to Congress.†   (source)
  • 288 She will be eligible for parole in 2025.†   (source)
  • You yourself may even be granted parole, once the war is done.†   (source)
  • After that time of hearing deathbed stories, to walk into the offices of PIH felt like one of those transitions he'd read about in Greek myth, when the mortal consigned to the underworld is granted a parole to return to the light.†   (source)
  • What made these sightings so extraordinary was that Luciano had recently been paroled from prison and deported to Sicily.†   (source)
  • You agree to a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.†   (source)
  • If he kept out of major trouble while confined, he could usually evade most of even that mild punishment, be given probation — 'paroled' in the jargon of the times.†   (source)
  • When they got out on parole Luke Hodge was sitting there waiting in his pick-up truck to take Nick home, and Luke hadn't spoken two words to him for a week.†   (source)
  • I mean, they wouldn't tell the parole officer-do anything to get us into trouble.†   (source)
  • It would be a shame if this Parole Board gave Yawkey a slap on the wrist and sent him home.†   (source)
  • He was paroled in November and just started working at a new barbershop.†   (source)
  • Send them back to the penitentiary, and take the chance of their escaping or being paroled?†   (source)
  • There was an affidavit signed by the victim in which she urged the Parole Board to show mercy.†   (source)
  • Floyd made some vague references to the mysterious workings of the Parole Board.†   (source)
  • Along the front table, the chairman of the Parole Board and its four other members sat together.†   (source)
  • She unfolded a sheet of paper and tried to smile at the members of the Parole Board.†   (source)
  • Jake nodded at them, then turned his attention to the Parole Board.†   (source)
  • His cockiness was not missed by several members of the Parole Board.†   (source)
  • Though the Parole Board took the issue under advisement, parole for the killer seemed unlikely.†   (source)
  • Jake cleared his throat and said, "Carla and I thank the Parole Board for this opportunity to speak.†   (source)
  • By a vote of 3 to 2, the Parole Board had decided to release Dennis Yawkey.†   (source)
  • She takes a deep breath and folds her hands together like she's praying and she says, "A request has been forwarded to me from the parole board.†   (source)
  • We told the judges and parole boards we were committed to providing the assistance our clients required.†   (source)
  • Victims' advocates were added to parole boards, and in most states they were given a formal role in state and local prosecutors' offices.†   (source)
  • He had been paroled by the British to report to Congress that Admiral Lord Howe wished to confer privately about an accommodation.†   (source)
  • You will check in every month with a parole officer who will be assigned to you at the conclusion of our proceedings.†   (source)
  • Figuring that he'd be paroled by the time Lavar graduated from high school, he planned to find out the time and place of the graduation ceremony.†   (source)
  • Or heard from him since he was paroled.†   (source)
  • Cedric Gilliam is out now, paroled last November after agreeing to get drug treatment and continue with his hair-cutting job.†   (source)
  • It seems he hasn't been reporting to his parole officer, and we wondered if you could tell us anything of his present whereabouts.†   (source)
  • He thinks she also tipped off his parole officer, because right after that fight, it so happens, the guy brought him in for a surprise drug test, which he failed.†   (source)
  • The leggy woman is almost up to the present, talking about how Cedric checked into drug detox in April, was given a last chance to stay clean by his parole officer, then failed the urine test in June.†   (source)
  • Hickock said he was about to be paroled, and he was going to go West looking for a job; he might stop to see Mr. Clutter to get a job.†   (source)
  • The guy must be Enrique Rivera, the parole board member, Cedric figures, and the woman is clearly some sort of corrections assistant who'll implement whatever Rivera decides.†   (source)
  • Then, smoking a cigarette borrowed from Nye and lighted by the courteous Church, he said, "Perry-my buddy Perry Smith-was paroled in the spring.†   (source)
  • He had served time for bank robbery, was paroled last year, and had just finished his bachelor's degree in business from D.C.'s Federal City College, part of a program for former convicts.†   (source)
  • For the most part, his rages in the, past have been directed at authority figures-father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer-and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions.†   (source)
  • The author of this manuscript was Perry's father, who in an effort to help his son obtain a parole from Kansas State Penitentiary, had written it the previous December and mailed it to the Kansas State Parole Board.†   (source)
  • Kind of funny, if you thought about it; imagine being back in Kansas, when only four months ago he had sworn, first to the State Parole Board, then to himself, that he would never set foot within its boundaries again.†   (source)
  • Paroled: 7-6-59.†   (source)
  • The investigator had no recommendation as to whether Yawkey should be paroled, which, according to Floyd Green, meant that a release was unlikely.†   (source)
  • Paroled: 8-13-59.†   (source)
  • The next speaker was the daughter of the bank teller who'd been murdered, and she began by saying this was the third time she had appeared before the Parole Board.†   (source)
  • …is Dr. Satten's contention that only the first murder matters psychologically, and that when Smith attacked Mr. Clutter he was under a mental eclipse; deep inside a schizophrenic darkness, for it was not entirely a flesh-and-blood man he "suddenly discovered" himself destroying, but "a key figure in some past traumatic configuration": his father? the orphanage nuns who had derided and beaten him? the hated Army sergeant? the parole officer who had ordered him to "stay out of Kansas"?†   (source)
  • The sentence was indeed life in prison without the possibility of parole.†   (source)
  • They have parole to walk around the city.†   (source)
  • I bet you guys get life without the possibility of parole.†   (source)
  • Our Captain Morse is on parole, lodged at the Golden Hill Tavern, we hear.†   (source)
  • We have abolished parole in many states.†   (source)
  • Mr. Carter was resentenced to life imprisonment without parole and sent to Angola.†   (source)
  • The judge accepted Ian's plea and then sentenced him to life with no parole.†   (source)
  • Most juveniles sentenced to life imprisonment without parole had been convicted of homicide crimes.†   (source)
  • The judge sentenced him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.†   (source)
  • The parole agent led us into a private room and asked what we were doing here.†   (source)
  • And that it was our job to keep the fact that we lived there a secret from the parole agents.†   (source)
  • Phillip marched us in the door of the parole office.†   (source)
  • Phillip's "mission" continued right up until the day he brought us to his parole office appointment.†   (source)
  • Angry at the parole agent for taking him and then not taking him.†   (source)
  • The girls and I grew up knowing he was on parole for the rape of a woman in his past.†   (source)
  • When we arrived at the Concord parole office we all got out of the car.†   (source)
  • I asked him what I should say when we get to the parole office.†   (source)
  • I wanted his parole agents to ask questions.†   (source)
  • She said she knew in her heart that something was going to happen at the parole office that day.†   (source)
  • He said the police had found some drugs in the house and arrested him for parole violation.†   (source)
  • He wants to get a lawyer and get off of parole.†   (source)
  • After his release, Dawson was placed on parole and returned to Oriental.†   (source)
  • , finally, is his parole revocation hearing.†   (source)
  • Beautiful women rarely appeared at parole hearings, which were 90 percent male anyway.†   (source)
  • Living here at home with us, getting to bed early, not violating his parole any shape or fashion.†   (source)
  • Though the Parole Board took the issue under advisement, parole for the killer seemed unlikely.†   (source)
  • He was just finishing a three-to-five-due for parole in August.†   (source)
  • Jake signed in and was given a document titled "Parole Hearings—Docket."†   (source)
  • See, Dick's dad watched him pretty close-afraid he'd break parole.†   (source)
  • Came all the way from Kansas on a parole case.†   (source)
  • His parole investigator went through a report that made him sound like a model prisoner.†   (source)
  • He'd already left Lansing, was out on parole.†   (source)
  • Both of us would like to say a few words in opposition to this request for parole.†   (source)
  • The sonofabitch was probably expecting some fancy reward-a parole or money, or both.†   (source)
  • His parole investigator recommended release, as did his victim.†   (source)
  • "I have three boys who I will definitely take care of," he had written in applying for parole.†   (source)
  • This prediction proved correct, for not long afterward Wells collected both the reward and a parole.†   (source)
  • As it was, they thought they'd been picked up for parole violation.†   (source)
  • Dick, we want to talk to you about your activities since your parole.†   (source)
  • For your information, a guy on parole's not allowed to booze.†   (source)
  • Now, when you received parole, it was on condition that you never return to Kansas.†   (source)
  • But now his brother had screwed him up with that joyride, and the parole would be off.†   (source)
  • They had all pleaded guilty—the mother-in-law too—and had received the most severe sentences allowed by law: fines in the hundreds of thousands, and prison sentences ranging from five to fifteen without parole.†   (source)
  • In early 1950, MacArthur ruled that war criminals' sentences would be reduced for good behavior, and those serving life sentences would be eligible for parole after fifteen years.†   (source)
  • Wes's brother, Tony, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted as the trigger man in the death of Sergeant Prothero.†   (source)
  • So by your own admission, under New York State law you are guilty of felony murder, for which the possible penalty is 25 years to life without parole?†   (source)
  • That's what everybody keeps saying, that this time they've got Killer Kane where they want him, in violation of parole, in violation of a restraining order, abduction of a minor, and two counts of attempted murder, me and the Heroic Biker Babe, which is what the papers took to calling Loretta Lee.†   (source)
  • "He's up for parole."†   (source)
  • They won't give me a parole this time.†   (source)
  • It was beyond what she would have imagfined even before she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.†   (source)
  • We decided to focus on two subsets of kids to help the Court grant relief if it wasn't ready to ban all life sentences without parole for juveniles.†   (source)
  • I told the Court that the United States is the only country in the world that imposes life imprisonment without parole sentences on children.†   (source)
  • I wanted to photograph some of our clients in order to give the lifewithout-parole sentences imposed on children a human face.†   (source)
  • Two years later, in June 2012, we won a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides.†   (source)
  • The lawyer didn't realize that two of the charges against Ian were punishable with sentences of life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • We estimated there were fewer than two hundred juvenile offenders serving life without parole for non-homicide offenses.†   (source)
  • It happened at the same time that we were representing children sentenced to life without parole all over the country.†   (source)
  • Antonio Nufiez's judge in Orange County, California, replaced his sentence of life imprisonment without parole with a sentence of 175 years.†   (source)
  • Most adults convicted of the kinds of crimes with which Trina, Ian, and Antonio were charged are not sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • In particular, the Louisiana clients serving life without parole for non-homicides faced many challenges.†   (source)
  • A grant of parole, the arrival of a hoped-for letter, a visit from a long-absent family member would lift everyone's spirits.†   (source)
  • Phillip was afraid his parole agent would show up unexpectedly and he didn't want the agent to see where the girls came from.†   (source)
  • Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder.†   (source)
  • When his parole agent would come over in the beginning, Phillip would tell us that we needed to stay in the back.†   (source)
  • In almost every state, juries made the decision to impose the death penalty or life in prison without parole.†   (source)
  • Instead, two parole agents came out.†   (source)
  • We filed similar challenges to life-without-parole sentences in several other cases involving children, including Ian Manuel's case.†   (source)
  • That although we didn't get to say good-bye to each other at the parole office, that this is good-bye forever.†   (source)
  • We then took on another hundred new cases after the decision banning mandatory life without parole for juveniles.†   (source)
  • On the inside I was wondering what he thought he was doing; did he really think we could just walk into his parole office and nothing would happen?†   (source)
  • There were fewer than a hundred children under the age of fifteen who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • He wanted to leave it with him on our way to the parole office, letting him know that his project was moving forward.†   (source)
  • She was convicted of multiple charges that triggered a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • Phillip told me the next time a parole agent came to the house, I was to ask if he was the one that went into my daughter's room.†   (source)
  • By 2010, Florida had sentenced more than a hundred children to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses, several of whom were thirteen years old at the time of the crime.†   (source)
  • One time a parole agent paid a surprise visit on Phillip and saw one of the girls sleeping in one of the spare rooms.†   (source)
  • The older boy made a deal with prosecutors and got a parole-eligible life sentence, while Evan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • I always thought it was so strange that not one of Phillip's parole agents knew that the property extended further back.†   (source)
  • A few years earlier, we won the release of Phillip Shaw, who was fourteen when he was improperly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in Missouri.†   (source)
  • The Court granted review in Joe's case and in another Florida case that involved a sixteen-year-old teen convicted of a non-homicide and sentenced to life with no parole.†   (source)
  • One day when I was in the house taking care of his mother, this new parole agent came and I asked him if he was the agent who walked into my daughter's bedroom.†   (source)
  • My staff and I discussed how we might use the constitutional reasoning that banned the execution of children as a legal basis for challenging juvenile life-without-parole sentences.†   (source)
  • A few hours later, as we were all sitting in the house trying to be calm and just wait for his call, in walks Phillip and his parole agent through the back porch door.†   (source)
  • The next morning as I was still sleeping in my tent, Philip comes out and tells me through the tent window that I need to get dressed because we are all going down to the parole office this morning.†   (source)
  • There were thousands of children like them scattered throughout prisons in the United States children who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or other extreme sentences.†   (source)
  • Nancy ran to Phillip and put her arms around him while shedding tears of stress and relief; the girls and I watched from the living room as his parole agent uncuffs him, instructs him to report the next morning to the Concord parole office, and leaves.†   (source)
  • Our litigation strategy was complicated by the fact that more than 2,500 children in the United States had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • I remember one time I was working on pruning my roses around my tent, and he comes to the back to announce that one of our Printing for Less clients was going to set him up with an attorney to get parole off his back.†   (source)
  • Lindsey received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole from his jury, but the judge had "overridden" it and imposed a death sentence on his own.†   (source)
  • This lady's grandson might be facing life imprisonment without parole, but given the overwhelming number of death penalty cases on our docket, I couldn't rationalize taking on his case.†   (source)
  • Throughout the years, the girls and I grew up knowing Phillip was on parole for hurting a woman, was sent to prison for many years, and that the parole agents that came to the house were there to supervise him.†   (source)
  • For years, we've been the only country in the world that condemns children to life imprisonment without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison.†   (source)
  • We ended up taking on almost one hundred new cases following the court's ban on life imprisonment without parole for kids convicted of non-homicide offenses.†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania sentencing law was inflexible: For those convicted of second-degree murder, mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was the only sentence.†   (source)
  • Over two thousand condemned people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes when they were children were now potentially eligible for relief and reduced sentences.†   (source)
  • Because both Joe's case and the Graham case involved non-homicides, it was likely that if we won a favorable ruling from the Court, it would only apply to life-without-parole sentences imposed on juveniles convicted of non-homicides, but that was an exciting possibility.†   (source)
  • The trial court sentenced Mrs. Colbey to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and a short while later she found herself shackled in a prison van heading to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling banning life imprisonment without parole for children convicted of non-homicide crimes, hundreds of children condemned to die in prison are now being resentenced and dozens have already been released.†   (source)
  • She is one of nearly five hundred people in Pennsylvania who have been condemned to mandatory life imprisonment without parole for crimes they were accused of committing when they were between the ages of thirteen and seventeen.†   (source)
  • On May 17, 2010, I was sitting in my office waiting anxiously when the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision: Life imprisonment without parole sentences imposed on children convicted of non-homicide crimes is cruel and unusual punishment and constitutionally impermissible.†   (source)
  • A wide assortment of children's rights advocates, lawyers, and mental health experts were watching closely when we asked the Court to declare life-without-parole sentences imposed on children unconstitutional.†   (source)
  • I thought about how if Judge Robert E. Lee Key hadn't overridden the jury's verdict of life imprisonment without parole and imposed the death penalty, which brought the case to our attention, Walter likely would have spent the rest of his life incarcerated and died in a prison cell.†   (source)
  • The total ban on life-without-parole sentences for children convicted of non-homicides should have been the easiest decision to implement, but enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling was proving much more difficult than I had hoped.†   (source)
  • I even challenged Judge Robert E. Lee Key's override of the jury's life sentence, though I knew the reduction of an innocent man's death sentence to life imprisonment without parole would still have been an egregious miscarriage of justice.†   (source)
  • When would he be granted parole?†   (source)
  • If we check off one from column A, but none from column B …. then the court automatically sentences him to life without parole.†   (source)
  • In the past three months, she'd been out with seven different men, thirty-one tattoos, six Harleys, two parole violations, and zero jobs, and right now she was feeling a little sorry for herself.†   (source)
  • On your plea of guilty, the court finds you guilty and sentences you to life in prison without the possibility of parole.†   (source)
  • Instead, he counted the days until he would finally be able to leave Oriental, and when his parole ended he wrapped the shotgun in an oilcloth, boxed it up, and buried it at the foot of an oak tree near the corner of hick's house.†   (source)
  • Exactly ten minutes later, in a courtroom heavy with tension, the magistrate pronounced sentence: three years for inciting people to strike and two years for leaving the country without a passport; five years in all, with no possibility of parole.†   (source)
  • Under Tennessee law, she'd be eligible for parole after serving ten months, and I had every intention of speaking on her behalf at her first parole hearing.†   (source)
  • Camping out on the stairs of the parole office entrance were folks in wheelchairs, elderly women with walkers, mothers clutching sick infants to their chests.†   (source)
  • Life without parole.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, he placed a call to Captain Roy Grillo, a parole supervisor he has known since he was a guard at Lorton in the mid-1980s.†   (source)
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