PAROLE REVOKED? RECENT CHANGE IN TEXAS LAW COULD BRING RELEASE FOR SEX OFFENDES

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals handed down a significant decision that can result in the removal of all of the harsh special conditions of parole that are applied to offenders who are being supervised as sex offenders when they do not have a conviction for a sex offense. This includes relief from counseling, electronic monitoring, child safety zone restrictions as well as removal of restrictions that affect work and travel.

This same case can also be applied to offenders who do not have sex offense convictions but whose parole was revoked for violations of sex offender restrictions. This means that if your loved one was sent back to prison for failing to comply with counseling, failing a polygraph, or violating a condition of his electronic monitoring, he could be released from prison and returned to supervision without those conditions being re-imposed.

The Court essentially held that offenders without sex offense convictions who were put on sex offender caseloads were denied due process of law by not being given a hearing before the convictions were imposed. If you have a loved one who is being treated as a sex offender, or whose parole has been revoked due to a violation of a sex offender supervision restriction, you may be able to obtain relief and his release from prison.

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The Cohen Law Firm has been representing offenders in the parole review process and in parole revocation hearings for twenty-five years; 100% of our practice is devoted to parole.