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California Parole May Be Broken, But Federal Courts Cannot Fix It
By Savannah Bowes - Last updated: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
By some curious coincidence, at about the same time that Jonathan Simon was explaining in his Barrock Lecture yesterday that parole has effectively become unavailable in California in homicide cases, the United States Supreme Court was overturning a pair of Ninth Circuit decisions that would have established a basis for federal-court review of parole denials. The [...]