Opinion ID: 803895
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Sharon Burnette pled guilty to murder and use

Text: 2 Appellants sought to represent a class of similarly situated individuals, but the district court had not yet certified a class at the time it dismissed the complaint. 8 BURNETTE v. FAHEY of a firearm in connection with the 1981 killing of a gas station attendant. For these crimes, she received a sentence of life plus one year. Before this, her criminal record reflected only a misde- meanor shoplifting conviction. She has had one institutional infraction during her period of incarceration, a 1982 charge for failing to stand for count. Notwithstanding this record, the Board has denied Burnette parole twelve times, each time citing only the ‘serious nature and circumstances of the crime’ or words to that effect.