An Orange County judge has held New York state’s Board of Parole in contempt for failing to abide by an order to give an explanation for denying parole to a convicted murderer “that did not simply restate the usual and predictable language with no specificity or other explanation to justify parole denial.”
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Sciortino said Wednesday that the parole board had “failed to correct the errors” which led her to vacate its 2013 denial of parole to Michael Cassidy, who pleaded guilty to the 1984 murder of his estranged girlfriend, Joann Biasi.
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