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Judge threatens to jail parole officials over child killer Raul Meza's status

By "eAdvocate"

3-30-2011 Texas: U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel wants to know why convicted murdered has sex offender restrictions placed on him. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on Tuesday said state parole officials violated his court order by failing to explain why they placed sex offender restrictions on the parole of convicted child killer Raul Meza. Yeakel gave the members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole a month to explain what evidence they relied on in placing the restrictions and threatened to jail the board members if they fail to comply. The order comes as the parole board, which traditionally operates in secret and is rarely required to explain its decisions, runs into repeated judicial checks on its power ? specifically its ability to label as sex offenders those who, like Meza, have not been convicted of a sex crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).