HOLSTON v. FLA. PAROLE & PROBATION

No. VV-73.

394 So.2d 1110 (1981)

Leon HOLSTON, Petitioner, v. FLORIDA PAROLE AND PROBATION COMMISSION, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon C. Holston, pro se, for petitioner.

Malcolm S. Greenfield, Gen. Counsel, Florida Parole and Probation Commission, Tallahassee, for respondent.


WENTWORTH, Judge.

Petitioner asserts that the Florida Parole and Probation Commission failed to establish a proper presumptive parole release date as mandated by Chapter 947, Florida Statutes, when it set petitioner's release date at "life." We agree.

The commission is not, of course, a sentencing court. It is charged with the responsibility of making sensitive decisions as to when release on parole is appropriate...

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