HOW WE SEE IT Justice Forgotten In Early Parole
Posted: December 26, 2009 at 3:29 a.m.
The murders of four police officers in Washington state last month left our state’s justice system with a black eye, considering that the man who allegedly ambushed those officers had been granted parole from prison in Arkansas not once, but twice. Regardless of which individuals you choose to blame for allowing Maurice Clemmons to go free — and there is plenty of blame to go around, both here and in Washington state — it made Arkansas look bad Hard on the heels of that incident, the Arkansas Parole Board gave us another doozy of a decision.
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Opinion, Pages 5 on 12/26/2009
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