Calderon-Pacheco v. State Board of Parole

In this administrative law case, we are to decide whether the Board of Parole improperly refused to consider a prisoner’s evidence of mitigating factors in setting an initial parole release date. At the hearing to consider the release date, the Board refused to admit or consider evidence that petitioner was a hard-working person who would be employable outside the walls of the corrections institution. The Board rejected the evidence on the basis that it was not “directly related to the circumstances surrounding the crime.” The Court of Appeals affirmed from the bench. Calderon-Pacheco v.…