Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...odel” sentencing and corrections scheme 7 for felony inmates like petitioner and for inmates with multiple misdemeanor sentences aggregating more than one year. Rehabilitation was a primary goal of the corrections process. See, e.g., Fla.Stat.Ann. § 947.13(1)(f)(2); 947.17(2), (5) and (6); 947.20; and 947.21 (1973)....

...Rehabilitation remains a primary goal of corrections; the Act requires the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services and all other state agencies to assist the Commission in performance of its duties, including inmate rehabilitation. Fla.Stat.Ann. § 947.13 (1983 Supp.); id. at § 947.135 (Mutual Participation Plan of 1976)....

...Parole & Probation Comm'n, 394 So.2d 1110, 1111 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981) ("The commission is not, of course, a sentencing court."). Moreover, the authority to grant parole is vested solely in the Parole Commission. Owens v. State, 308 So.2d 171, 171 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975); see also § 947.13(1)(a), Fla....

...The Parole Commission administers parole. Floyd v. Parole & Probation Comm'n, 509 So.2d 919, 920 (Fla. 1987). Furthermore, the Parole Commission is responsible for determining whether a person has violated parole and taking action with respect to a violation. § 947.13(1)(c), Fla....

...release programs, including Control Release. It provides the Parole Commission with the power to revoke a releasee's supervision and return the releasee to prison to serve the sentence imposed or enter "such other order as it considers proper." [7] Section 947.13, Florida Statutes (1995), generally describes the Parole Commission's functions and organization in relation to all of its programs....

...By such order, the panel may revoke conditional release, control release, or conditional medical release and thereby return the releasee to prison to serve the sentence imposed, reinstate the original order granting the release, or enter such other order as it considers proper. (Emphasis added.) [8] Section 947.13 provides in pertinent part: (1) The commission shall have the powers and perform the duties of: .......

...unless expressly provided herein."). [3] Section 947.1405(2)(c) provides, in pertinent part, that "[a] panel of no fewer than two commissioners shall establish the terms and conditions of any such release." § 947.1405(2)(c), Fla. Stat. (2001). [4] Section 947.13 (Powers and Duties of Commission), states, in pertinent part: The commission shall have the powers and perform the duties of: . . . . (f) Establishing the terms and conditions of persons released on conditional release under s. 947.1405.... § 947.13(1)(f), Fla....

...as conditions of parole. While a court is not precluded from recommending conditions of parole, Owens v. State, 308 So.2d 171 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975), the Parole and Probation Commission is solely vested with the power to establish conditions of parole. § 947.13(1)(b), Fla....

...The court made payment of these sums a condition of parole. Although a court is not precluded from recommending conditions of parole, Owens v. State, 308 So.2d 171 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975), the Parole and Probation Commission is solely vested with the power to establish conditions of parole. § 947.13(1)(b), Fla....

...of parole. Although a court is not precluded from recommending conditions of parole, the Parole and Probation Commission alone is invested with the statutory authority to impose such conditions. Alexander v. State, 425 So.2d 1197 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983); § 947.13(1)(b); Fla....

candidate for executive clemency. See Fla. Stat. § 947.13(e) (noting the Commission must report to the Clemency

...tion of parole. Although a trial court is not precluded from recommending conditions of parole, Owens v. State, 308 So.2d 171 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975), the Parole and Probation Commission is solely vested with the power to establish conditions of parole. § 947.13(1)(b); Alexander v....

authority to establish conditions of parole. § 947.-13(l)(b); Brown; Alexander v. State, 425 So.2d 1197

parole and the time and conditions of parole. Section 947.13, Florida Statutes, no error was committed.

of a fine as a condition of parole violates Section 947.-13(1)(b), Florida Statutes, as interpreted in

with the power to establish those conditions. § 947.-13(1)(b), Fla.Stat. (1981). Therefore, those portions

"[m]aking such investigations as may be necessary." Section 947.13, F. S. Parole and probation officers have the

...tories of persons under USCA11 Case: 23-11277 Document: 12-1 Date Filed: 04/26/2023 Page: 3 of 14 consideration by the board for pardon, commutation of sentence, or remission of fine, penalty, or forfeiture.” Fla. Stat. § 947.13(1)(e). But Rule 15 does not delineate the “factors relevant to the issue of clemency,” nor does Florida law otherwise include specific enumerated factors that should be considered during the clemency process....