Fleming v. Board of Parole & Post-Prison Supervision

Petitioner, who was convicted of aggravated murder in 1986, seeks review of an order of the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision (board) in which the board (1) concluded that petitioner was likely to be rehabilitated within a reasonable period of time, (2) altered his term of confinement to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole, and (3) set a projected parole release date in 2016, at which point petitioner will have served the judicially imposed 30-year minimum sentence for aggravated murder imposed pursuant to ORS 163.105(1) (1985). 1 Petitioner argues that, under Norris v.…