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| Appeals Court Orders Elderly Inmate Freed |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/15/2004 |
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Accusing the state parole board of "vindictiveness," a federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the release of a 75-year-old inmate whose life sentence for murder was commuted in 1995. Louis Mickens-Thomas, a former Philadelphia cobbler, has been imprisoned since 1964 for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. Mickens-Thomas' sentence was commuted by then-Gov. Robert Casey to a term that would have made him eligible for parole in 1996. But the parole board under later governors refused to release him, rejecting his four applications. The three-judge panel said it would be futile to send Mickens-Thomas' parole application back to the board, citing its "willful noncompliance, bad faith, and a sufficient inference of retaliation or vindictiveness." Mickens-Thomas is the only person in Pennsylvania history to remain jailed after a governor commuted his life sentence, his lawyers have said. |
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