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Ninth Circuit: California Lifers Have No Inherent U.S. Constitutional Right to Parole

by John E. Dannenberg

In a major loss for California lifers, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, in an en banc ruling, held that a second-degree murderer who had served 27 years on a 15-life sentence did not have a right to parole that devolved from either federal law ...

 

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