C.A. 1st;
A147177

The First Appellate District granted a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The court held that the Board of Parole Hearings erred in refusing to set base terms and adjusted base terms at a youth offender's 2015 parole hearing.

In 1988, when he was 17 years old, William Palmer pleaded guilty to kidnapping for robbery. Sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, Palmer came before the Board of Parole Hearings 10 times, without success. The most recent hearing was on June 2, 2015, when the Board denied parole, with a five-year denial, expressly rejecting Palmer's request at the conclusion of the hearing to calculate his base term and adjusted base term. The Board denied Palmer's request for reconsideration.

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