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Utah Supreme Court: Procedural Due Process Violated Where Failure to Participate in Sex Offender Treatment Program Used to Deny Parole to Prisoner Not Convicted of Sex Offense

Loaded on July 21, 2018 by David Reutter published in Criminal Legal News August, 2018, page 26
Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Parole, Sex Offender Treatment. Location: Utah.

by David Reutter

The Supreme Court of Utah held that the Board of Pardons and Parole (“Parole Board”) violated a prisoner’s due process rights by adjudicating him a sex offender. The designation as a sex offender was based on unproven allegations in a police report and a mistrial without conviction ...

 

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