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Four men convicted in the 1988 killing a young New York City police officer will be coming up for parole for the first time in November.
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The Kansas Prisoner Review Board denied parole to George Rainey, who shot and killed a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper in 1981.
Read More →The Minnesota Department of Corrections has approved parole for a prisoner convicted of murdering a police officer. Timothy Eling, 63, was notified this week that his life sentence for the 1982 killing of Oakdale police officer Richard Walton has ended after 29 years.
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On Tuesday, Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency for Troy Davis, convicted of shooting an officer in the chest and face. The move paves the way for his death by lethal injection on Wednesday.
Read More →So far, Gov. Brown has upheld 207 of the parole board's 253 decisions to release convicted killers, as a response to the U.S. Supreme Court's mandate to the state reduce overcrowded prison populations.
Read More →For the fifth time since the killing of Marshall County (Miss.) Sheriff Osborne Bell, Bart Mease has been denied parole. The state's Parole Board declined Mease's appeal in the 1986 shooting death of Sheriff Bell during a traffic stop.
Read More →In an editorial, the Boston Herald called the release of Cinelli "a perfect storm of incompetence, inefficiency, technical glitches and flaws in existing law."
Read More →Facing widespread anger from police chiefs and victims' advocates, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday pleaded patience in the administrative review of the state Parole Board's decision to free a violent career criminal who allegedly shot and killed a Woburn police officer last week
Read More →The state's Parole Board voted unanimously in 2008 to free Dominic Cinelli, a serial armed robber serving three life sentences. Cinelli is now accused of fatally shooting Officer John Maguire during a Dec. 26 armed robbery of a Kohl's jewelry counter.
Read More →Father Michael Levine, a retired DEA agent who now teaches police and lectures on undercover tactics and informant handling, has been active in raising awareness of the hearing and encouraging fellow LEOs to oppose Alston's release.
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