For at least the third time in four months, Supreme Court Justice Richard Mott in Columbia County has toppled a decision by a state parole board, finding the panel based a release decision solely on the instant offense without giving serious consideration to the statutory criteria. Last week in Douglas v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, 6213-13, Mott said the board seems predisposed to "prolong" the inmate's "imprisonment for as long as possible."
Mott noted that the inmate, former Newburgh police officer Thomas Douglas IV, has an "exemplary prison record," but the board, after denying release, set the next hearing at a date after his conditional release date—"manifesting the Board's intent that he never be released on parole."
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