Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 515 - Pardon and Parole Board › Chapter 20 - Pardon Procedures › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 515:20-1-2 - 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.
"Applicant"
means a person who has submitted a
				  pardon application to the Board for consideration.
"Application review"
means the process conducted
				  by the administrative staff of the Board to determine the completeness of the
				  application.
"Board"
means the Pardon and Parole
				  Board.
"Conviction"
means a formal judgment of guilt
				  entered by a court or, if adjudication of guilt was withheld, where:
(A) a judge or jury found the applicant
				guilty or the applicant entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or admitted
				sufficient facts to warrant a finding of guilt, and
(B) the judge ordered that some form of
				punishment, penalty, or restraint on the applicant's liberty be imposed.
"Complete application"
means an application in
				  which all sections of the application have been determined to be complete and
				  all required documentation has been submitted.
"Confirmation number"
means a tracking number
				  assigned by the administrative staff of the Board upon request by persons who
				  wish to speak in support or in protest of an inmate's parole, pardon,
				  commutation, or clemency consideration.
"Docket"
means the document which is created to
				  identify the individuals who will be considered by the Board.
"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 applicant
				  did not sufficiently answer all questions as determined by the Executive
				  Director or an assigned designee as required in the pardon application
				  instructions.
"Ineligible application"
means an application
				  submitted by an applicant who does not meet the eligibility criteria for a
				  pardon consideration.
"Legal representative for the Applicant"
means a
				  person or persons who is licensed to practice law and appointed or authorized
				  to represent the Applicant.
"Pardon"
means an act of forgiveness by the
				  Governor that allows a person to be released from the consequences of
				  conviction of a crime and restores some of a person's civil rights.
"Pardon application"
means the form approved by
				  the Board for the consideration of a pardon.
"Personal appearance"
means an appearance by the
				  Applicant before the members of the Board either in person or via
				  video-conferencing.
"Pre-pardon investigation"
means an
				  investigation conducted to verify the information provided in the
				  application.
"Receipt"
means the date on which the
				  application is determined to be complete and has been date stamped as
				  received.
"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.