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Georgia Parole Board's "90% Policy" Ruled Ex Post Facto
Loaded on April 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2003, page 22
Georgia Parole Board's "90% Policy" Ruled Ex Post Facto by John E. Dannenberg
The United States District Court (N.D. Ga.) held that the retroactive application by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles ("Board") of its 1998 policy revision requiring specified violent felons to now do 90% (rather than 1/3) ...
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