State Ex Rel. Cavallaro v. Groose

PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS

BENTON, Judge.

In April 1994, the Board of Probation and Parole denied parole release to Petitioner Vincent K. Cavallaro. He seeks a writ of mandamus for a new hearing that uses as the governing law the parole statute in effect at the time he committed his first offense in 1968. Mo. Const. art. V., § k; Rule 8⅛.23. The alternative writ is quashed.

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In 1969, Cavallaro received Missouri convictions for first and second-degree murder for two homicides committed after he escaped from a North Carolina prison, where he had been incarcerated for a prior murder. In 1981,…