Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I think we'll have two or three more movies," he added. "Amy Fisher: My Days in Jail, and Amy Fisher: My Days Before the Parole Board."
Whether her heart was reformed was no longer the primary issue. It was an ailing heart that won Jean Harris' freedom. A New York State parole-board panel approved her release last week after Governor Mario Cuomo cleared the way by granting her clemency in December. Harris served 12 years...
The jury couldn't figure it out either. At Collins' first trial, for first- degree murder, her friends, a minister, her doctors and several experts testified about her character and the violence she had suffered. The prosecution played tapes of her threatening her husband over the phone and portrayed her...
The first mass release in the U.S. came at Christmas in 1990, when Ohio Governor Richard Celeste commuted the sentences of 27 battered women serving time for killing or assaulting male companions. His initiative was born of long-held convictions. As a legislator in the early '70s, he and his...
Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri has commuted the life sentences of two women, Helen Martin and Becca Hughes, both convicted of murdering abusive husbands. Ashcroft said he commuted the sentences because the women were convicted before a 1987 law allowing the "battered-spouse syndrome" as a defense. They are...