Janowski v. BOARD OF PAROLE AND POST-PRISON SUPERVISION

Petitioner, who received a life sentence for two aggravated murders committed in 1985, challenges an order of the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision in which the board found that petitioner had satisfied his burden under ORS 163.105 (1985) 1 of showing that he was “likely to be rehabilitated within a reasonable period of time” and converted petitioner’s sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole or work release. However, because the board concluded that it lacked the authority to release petitioner until he had completed serving the 30-year minimum sentence imposed by…