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@followers We're thrilled to support our friends at Yoga Forward and their upcoming fundraising event, NAMASTADIUM! 🌟 Experience the magic of yoga on the field, surrounded by community, all while raising funds to bring the healing power of yoga to the Utah State Correctional Facility.
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UPAN Newsletter | Volume 11 Number 10 | October 2024 - mailchi.mp/utahprisoneradvocate/upan-newsletter-october-2024
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Could People Facing the Death Penalty Lose the Right to Tell Juries Their Life Stories? Some defense lawyers fear that a conservative Supreme Court could overturn that precedent.
Is This Death Penalty Precedent Up Next for the Supreme Court?
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Some defense lawyers fear that a conservative Supreme Court could overturn that precedent.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
NEW RESOURCE: American Bar Association Reports on Capital Punishment and the State of Criminal Justice 2024
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🚨 Important Public Hearing Alert 🚨
Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole (BOPP) will hold a public hearing both in-person at their Murray offices and online. This is your opportunity to provide input and feedback (PUBLIC COMMENT) on proposed amendments to several important rules.
Proposed Rule Amendments:
• R671-103: Attorneys
• R671-104: Language Access
• R671-309: Impartial Hearings
• R671-403: Restitution
• R671-513: Expedited Determination of Parolee Challenge to Probable Cause
📍 Location: 448 E. Winchester St., Suite 300, Murray, UT
💻 Join Online: meet.google.com/zxa-uqxs-naf
You can also submit written comments by mail or email to [email protected] before October 1, 2024.
Links to the proposed amendments are available below and on the BOPP website at bop.utah.gov/
This is an important opportunity to make your voice heard and contribute to decisions that impact our loved ones. We encourage everyone who can to participate!
More Info: www.utah.gov/pmn/sitemap/notice/940331.html
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Every exoneration tells a powerful story of resilience and hope. At RMIC, we fight for the truth and for the freedom of those who have been wrongfully imprisoned.
Harry Miller spent four years in prison for a robbery he did not commit. He was convicted in 2003 of an aggravated robbery at a convenience store.
In December 2000, a woman was robbed at knifepoint in a store in Salt Lake City, Utah. The woman told police the robber was between 18 and 21 years old. Three years later, the victim identified Harry Miller, a 47-year-old man, as her robber. Miller told police that he had lived in Louisiana since May 2000 and was in Louisiana at the time of the robbery. Indeed, two weeks before the crime, he had suffered a stroke. He was unable to drive and required frequent care. His in-home nurse said that she had visited him in Louisiana on the day before the crime.
Nonetheless, Miller was charged with robbery, and in December 2003, a jury convicted Miller based solely on the mistaken eyewitness identification.
#FightForInnocence #ExonerationStories #JusticePrevails #ExonerateTheInnocent #WrongfulConvictions #RMIC
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From Clinton to Trump, how talk about crime has changed since a landmark bill
From Clinton to Trump, how talk about crime has changed since a landmark bill
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Crime is a perennial issue in presidential campaigns, but experts say public perceptions of safety and justice are much different today than 30 years ago.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
See What Utah Spent on Its First Execution in 14 Years
See What Utah Spent on Its First Execution in 14 Years
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This case concerns the First Step Act of 2018, in which Congress made major reductions to the mandatory minimum sentences for certain federal drug and firearm offenses. These changes result in sentences many decades shorter than were required under the previous laws. The question in this case was whether people who were initially sentenced prior to enactment of the First Step Act, but whose sentences were vacated and remanded for resentencing after enactment of the law, can benefit from its major reductions in applicable mandatory minimums. For defendants like Mr. Carpenter, who was originally sentenced to a draconian 116 years in prison as a result of the pre-First Step Act mandatory minimums, applying the First Step Act can mean the difference between dying in prison and having the opportunity to eventually go free. Unfortunately, although there is a split among federal courts of appeals on this question, the Supreme Court denied cert in this case in February 2024.
Carpenter v. United States | American Civil Liberties Union
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This case concerns the First Step Act of 2018, in which Congress made major reductions to the mandatory minimum sentences for certain federal drug and firearm offenses. These changes result in sentenc...0 CommentsComment on Facebook