Jones v. Utah Board of Pardons & Parole

NEHRING, Justice:

¶ 1 This case presents the question of whether the Utah Constitution authorized the legislature to enact Utah Code section 77-27-11(3), which empowers the Board of Pardons and Parole to issue warrants to retake parolees believed to have violated parole. Utah Code Ann. § 77-27-11(3) (2003). We hold that it did.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 Scott Jones is now incarcerated at the Utah State Prison. He had been previously committed to prison following a conviction for theft of an automobile and was paroled in June 1995. When he was paroled, Mr. Jones signed a parole agreement that required him…