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O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 17-17-13 (2019)

Notification to victim of impending parole, release for period exceeding 60 days, or pardon; notice of hearing on request to commute death sentence

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Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The State Board of Pardons and Paroles shall give 20 days’ advance notification to a victim whenever it considers making a final decision to grant parole, release a defendant for a period exceeding 60 days, or grant a pardon; and the board shall provide the victim with an opportunity to file a written objection to such action. Within 72 hours of receiving a request to commute a death sentence, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles shall provide notification to a victim of the date set for hearing such request and provide such victim an opportunity to file a written response to such request. No notification to the victim need be given unless the victim has expressed a desire for such notification and has provided the State Board of Pardons and Paroles with a current mailing or e-mail address and telephone number. Failure of the victim to inform the board of a change of address or telephone number shall not void a decision of the board.

History

Code 1981, § 17-17-13, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 385, § 2; Ga. L. 2015, p. 207, § 1/HB 71.

Annotations

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, in the first sentence, inserted a comma following "parole", deleted "or any other manner or executive clemency action" preceding "release a defendant" and inserted ", or grant a pardon"; added the present second sentence; and in the third sentence, inserted "to the victim" near the beginning, deleted "objection to release or has expressed" preceding "a desire" near the middle, and inserted "mailing or e-mail" near the end; and added the last sentence.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case (1 in the last 5 years), 2021–2021 · leading case: Billy Edgar Murrell v. State, 859 S.E.2d 506 (Ga. Ct. App. 2021).
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Billy Edgar Murrell v. State, 859 S.E.2d 506 (Ga. Ct. App. 2021). · cites it 4× “9 Even so, the State appears to hinge the trial court’s jurisdiction to consider its motion to clarify Murrell’s sentence on OCGA § 17-7-1 (5),13 OCGA § 17-17-13,14 and a statement from an attorney with the Department of Corrections that it needed something in writing that would…”
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