Sentence examples for parole bid from inspiring English sources

After his conviction and imprisonment, Berkman was diagnosed with cancer, adding additional urgency to his parole bid.

On that and a subsequent occasion Boudin's parole bid was rejected.

Buice's parole bid has been championed by Houston gay-rights advocate Ray Hill, who helped send Buice to prison.

Sept. 7, 7 20 a.m.: This article was updated to add that Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel lost her parole bid earlier this year.

"Protopappas' lack of insight renders the life offenses still relevant to my determination that he continues to pose a current, unreasonable risk to public safety," the governor wrote in a letter rejecting the parole bid.

The attorney for a Costa Mesa dentist convicted of killing three people in his dentist chair more than 20 years ago expressed confidence Thursday that he can win his client's freedom even after the governor rejected a parole bid earlier this month.

Mr. Cruz's lawyers have offered a plea bargain — consecutive life sentences without parole — in a bid to avoid a trial and the threat of execution.

Her bid for parole passed another hurdle this week.On the negative side, the Indonesian press was outraged at being excluded from an Abbott press conference.

The Parole Board, in its statement denying Mr. Chapman's first bid for parole, wrote: "Your most vicious and violent act was apparently fueled by your need to be acknowledged.

But his words did not sway the board, which, citing his ongoing desire for notoriety, denied Mr. Chapman's first bid for parole since he pleaded guilty to the Dec. 8, 1980, murder of John Lennon.

The cases were eventually dismissed, but Leonard Peltier's most recent bid for parole was turned down only last month and Matthiessen remains bitter about the continuing role played by the FBI.