Parole Eligibility
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Parole, appeals deadlines and restitution: Colorado justices accept cases
The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will determine how a defendant’s parole-eligibility date should be calculated in instances where a new trial results in a sentence being imposed retroactively to the date of the original, since-overturned sentence. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear a case on…
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Appeals court divided over effect of retroactive sentence on parole calculation
Colorado’s second-highest court grappled last week with the framework for calculating a defendant’s earliest possible parole date in light of two intersecting legal principles — a judge’s ability to make an order retroactive, and the requirement that separate, simultaneous sentences be treated as one continuous sentence. By 2-1, a three-judge Court of Appeals panel decided…