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| Law allows for early release |
| By newsobserver.com |
| Published: 10/27/2009 |
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State leaders say the secretary of correction overstepped his authority when he shortened the sentences of inmates convicted before 1981. But the secretary found that authority on page 378 of the 1981 North Carolina General Statutes. Now, a chance at freedom for 27 inmates is tangled in what state leaders think their predecessors meant to do and what state law actually says. In 1981, in the midst of overhauling the state's sentencing laws, legislators said the secretary of correction should control the rules to award credits given to inmates imprisoned before that year. From 1974 to 1978, state law defined a life sentence as 80 years. Read More. |
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