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Parole calculations raise legal questions across Missouri
Missouri’s complex sentencing and parole system has created inconsistent outcomes, prompting court challenges and new reforms aimed at clarity and due process.
Criminal Law: Parole Eligibility-Section 195.295
Where the department of corrections challenged a judgment in favor of respondent, who requested that the trial court retroactively apply the 2017 repeal of Section 195.295 and declare him immediately […]
Criminal Law: Parole Eligibility-Retroactivity
Where the Department of Corrections challenged the grant of judgment on the pleadings to a defendant who sought the retroactive application of the repeal of Sections 195.222 and 195.296 to […]
Criminal Law: Sentencing-Parole Eligibility-Juvenile Offender
Where a defendant, who sought parole eligibility after serving 25 years of his sentence of life without parole for crimes committed as a juvenile, the trial court did not err […]
Criminal Law : Sentencing – Parole Eligibility – Retroactive Application
Fields v. Board of Probation and Parole (MLW No. 72051/Case No. WD81552 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)
Criminal Law : Sentencing – Parole Eligibility – Retroactive Application
Wagner v. Bowyer (MLW No. 72056/Case No. ED106140 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)
Criminal Law : Parole Eligibility – Board Authority
Brown v. Board Of Probation and Parole (MLW No. 70014/Case No. WD79139 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Hardwick, J.)
Criminal Law : Post-Conviction Relief – Parole Eligibility – Plea Agreement
Teaver v. State (MLW No. 68490/Case No. SD33929 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Bates,
Criminal Law : Parole Eligibility – Date Calculation – Conditional Release Term
Woods v. Board of Probation and Parole (MLW No. 68501/Case No. WD77882 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)
Criminal Law : Parole Eligibility – Mootness
Hickerson v. Board of Probation and Parole (MLW No. 68400/Case No. WD78086 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Welsh, J.)
Criminal Law : Parole Eligibility – Release Date – Multiple Convictions
Short v. Board of Probation and Parole (MLW No. 67457/Case No. WD77964 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Hardwick, J.)
Criminal Law: Parole Eligibility – Calculation – Minimum Sentence
Mozee v. Board of Probation and Parole (MLW No. 64921/Case No. WD75750 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.)
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