"In March, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an additional avenue to commutation. The proposed rules task the parole board with reviewing people six years before their first parole date, conducting a commutation and resentencing (C&R) hearing that may include victims' families and the district attorney, and then issuing recommendations to both the governor regarding clemency and to the courts regarding resentencing."
""The proposed regulations provide the framework that will allow the Board to exercise its authority under section 4812, as well as section 1172.1," Diana Crofts-Pelayo, the governor's deputy director of communications, wrote in an email to Truthout. The governor will retain the discretion to grant executive clemency outside this process. During his nearly seven years in office, Newsom has granted 160 commutations."
Tien Mo, sentenced at 20 to life without parole for a classmate's death, remains awaiting a 2017 clemency decision and longs for relief. Proposed California regulations would require the parole board to review incarcerated people six years before their first parole date, hold commutation and resentencing hearings that may include victims' families and district attorneys, and issue recommendations to the governor on clemency and to courts on resentencing. The board previously stopped such reviews in 1994. Governor Gavin Newsom retains discretion to grant clemency and has issued 160 commutations during his tenure.
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