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PAROLED. KATHY BOUDIN, 60, a 1960s radical, Bryn Mawr graduate and former member of the Weather Underground who served 22 years in prison for her admitted participation as a decoy in a 1981 armored-car robbery and shoot-out that left two police officers and a security guard dead; in...
A former employee of Harvard University Dining Services was sentenced to a year in prison without parole last week, after pleading guilty to drug trafficking, a district attorney spokesperson said.
LaGrassa said the charge—which is to be served in the Middlesex House of Corrections in Billerica—carried a mandatory minimum sentence of one year, eliminating any chance of parole.
At the trial, the jury found Delamora guilty of capital murder, and because death wasn't an option, he automatically received what Texas law calls a "life" sentence in prison--no possibility of parole for 40 years. That wasn't enough for many Texans, who were furious: Ruiz's widow...
From the time he was a law clerk, Rehnquist has advocated limiting the ability of state prisoners to argue in federal court that their convictions violated the Constitution. Rehnquist's views have now become the law, and the once "Great Writ" of habeas corpus--the right of the accused to...