Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 515 - Pardon and Parole Board › Chapter 15 - Commutation Procedures › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 515:15-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this Chapter
				  shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Administrative office"
means the current main
				  office for the Board, the address of which shall be posted to the Board's
				  public website.
"Application review"
means the process conducted
				  by the administrative staff of the Board to determine the completeness of the
				  application.
"Board"
means Pardon and Parole Board.
"Commutation"
means a reduction in the
				  incarceration term of a sentence, or the changing of an indefinite
				  incarceration term to a definite incarceration term.
"Commutation application"
means the form
				  approved by the Board for the consideration of a commutation.
"Complete application"
means an application in
				  which all sections of the application have been determined to be
				  complete.
"Confirmation number"
means a tracking number
				  assigned by the Board to identify those persons who wish to appear before the
				  Board in support or in protest of an Inmate's commutation application.
"Delegate"
means a person that appears before
				  the Board on behalf of the Inmate.
"Executive Director"
means the Executive
				  Director of the Board.
"Illegible application"
means a handwritten
				  application in which the handwriting cannot be read as determined by the
				  Executive Director or an assigned designee.
"Incomplete application"
means an application
				  that is lacking a part, parts, or all of a section or sections or the Inmate
				  did not sufficiently answer all questions as determined by the Executive
				  Director or an assigned designee as required in the commutation application
				  instructions.
"Initial Review"
means a Stage One review of the
				  application by the Board to determine if the application warrants additional
				  investigation and further study.
"Inmate"
means an applicant who is in the
				  physical custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
"Jacket review"
means a review by the Board of a
				  complete application.
"Legal representative for the Inmate"
means a
				  person or persons who is licensed to practice law and appointed or authorized
				  to represent the Inmate.
"Personal appearance"
means an appearance by the
				  Inmate before the Board via video conferencing.
"Petition for reconsideration"
means a formal
				  request that the Board reconsider an Inmate's commutation application.
"Receipt"
means the date on which the
				  application is determined to be complete and is date stamped as
				  received.
"Stage Two review"
means a second review of a
				  commutation application by the Board and includes a personal appearance.
"Trial Official"
means the current elected judge
				  of the court where the conviction was had, the current elected district
				  attorney of the jurisdiction where the conviction was had, or the chief or head
				  administrative officer of the arresting law enforcement agency.
"Victim"
means any person against whom the
				  criminal offense or delinquent act is committed or who is directly and
				  proximately harmed by the commission of the offense or act.
"Victim representative"
means a person who is a
				  member of the immediate family of the Victim, including stepparents,
				  stepbrothers, stepsisters, and stepchildren; or it means a representative that
				  the victim chooses to speak on his or her behalf.