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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Jones</ns0:AuthorText>
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		<ns0:Title>An act to amend Section 3046 of the Penal Code, relating to parole. </ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>Parole hearings: use of photographs.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>Existing law punishes specified crimes, including, among others, some forms of murder and rape, with imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of parole. Existing law states that an inmate imprisoned under a life sentence shall not be paroled until they have served the greater of either 7 years or the minimum term set in their sentence. Existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings to, in considering a parole for an inmate, consider all statements and recommendations which may have been submitted by the judge, district attorney, and sheriff, as specified, and recommendations of other persons interested in the granting or denying of parole.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would require the board to consider in a parole suitability hearing for an inmate imprisoned under a life sentence specified photographs.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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				Section 3046 of the 
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								(a)
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								An inmate imprisoned under a life sentence shall not be paroled until they have served the greater of the following:
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								(1)
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								A term of at least seven calendar years.
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								(2)
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								A term as established pursuant to any other law that establishes a minimum term or minimum period of confinement under a life sentence before eligibility for parole.
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								(b)
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								If two or more life sentences are ordered to run consecutively to each other pursuant to Section 669, an inmate so imprisoned shall not be paroled until they have served the term specified in subdivision (a) on each of the life
						sentences that are ordered to run consecutively.
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								(c)
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								Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), an inmate found suitable for parole pursuant to a youth offender parole hearing as described in Section 3051 or an elderly parole hearing as described in Section 3055 shall be paroled regardless of the manner in which the board set release dates pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 3041, subject to subdivision (b) of Section 3041 and Sections 3041.1 and 3041.2, as applicable.
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								(d)
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								The Board of Parole Hearings shall, in considering a parole for an inmate, consider all statements and recommendations which may have been submitted by the judge, district attorney, and sheriff, pursuant to Section 1203.01, or in response to notices given under Section 3042, and recommendations of other
						persons interested in the granting or denying of parole. The submitted statements and recommendations that shall be considered in a parole hearing include, but are not limited to, crime scene photographs, autopsy photographs, and photographs of weapons used in the
						crime. The board shall enter on its order granting or denying parole to these inmates, the fact that the statements and recommendations have been considered by it.
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