{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-332.2","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-332.2","heading":"Meetings of Pardon and Parole Board – Consideration of","body":"commutation - Notice of dockets and recommendations.\n\nA. The Pardon and Parole Board, which shall meet only on the\n\ncall of the Chair, is authorized, if and when an application made to\n\nthe Governor for a reprieve, commutation, parole, pardon, or other\n\nact of clemency is certified thereto by the Governor, to examine\n\ninto the merits of said application and make recommendations to the\n\nGovernor in relation thereto, said recommendation being advisory to\n\nthe Governor and not binding thereon.\n\nB. Any consideration for commutation shall be made only after\n\napplication is made to the Pardon and Parole Board pursuant to the\n\nprocedures set forth in this section. The Pardon and Parole Board\n\nshall provide a copy of the application to the district attorney,\n\nthe victim or representative of the victim and the Office of the\n\nAttorney General within ten (10) business days of receipt of such\n\napplication.\n\nC. An application for commutation, other than those provided\n\nfor in subsection F of this section, must be sent to the trial\n\nofficials, who shall have twenty (20) business days to provide a\n\nwritten recommendation or protest prior to consideration of the\n\napplication. Trial officials shall include:\n\n1. The current elected judge of the court where the conviction\n\nwas had;\n\n2. The current elected district attorney of the jurisdiction\n\nwhere the conviction was had; or\n\n3. The chief or head administrative officer of the arresting\n\nlaw enforcement agency.\n\nD. In cases resolved prior to the tenure of the present\n\nofficeholders, the recommendation or protest of persons holding such\n\noffices at the time of conviction may also be considered by the\n\nBoard.\n\nE. The recommendation for commutation of a sentence by a trial\n\nofficial may include the following:\n\n1. A statement that the penalty now appears to be excessive;\n\n2. A recommendation of a definite term now considered by the\n\nofficial as just and proper; and\n\n3. A statement of the reasons for the recommendation based upon\n\nfacts directly related to the case which were not available to the\n\ncourt or jury at the time of the trial or based upon there having\n\nbeen a statutory change in penalty for the crime which makes the\n\noriginal penalty appear excessive.\n\nF. The Pardon and Parole Board shall establish an accelerated,\n\nsingle-stage commutation docket for any applicant who has been\n\nconvicted of a crime that has been reclassified from a felony to a\n\nmisdemeanor under Oklahoma law. The Pardon and Parole Board shall\n\nbe empowered to recommend to the Governor for commutation, by\n\nmajority vote, any commutation application placed on the\n\naccelerated, single-stage commutation docket that meets the\n\neligibility criteria provided above. The Department of Corrections\n\nshall certify a list of potentially eligible inmates to the Pardon\n\nand Parole Board within thirty (30) days of the effective date of\n\nthis act.\n\nG. The Pardon and Parole Board shall schedule the application\n\non a commutation docket in compliance with the notice requirements\n\nset forth herein. The Board shall provide the victim or\n\nrepresentative of the victim at least twenty (20) days to offer\n\nrecommendations or protests before consideration of the application.\n\nH. Applications for commutation shall be given impartial review\n\nas required in Section 10 of Article VI of the Oklahoma\n\nConstitution.\n\nI. Any consideration for pardon shall be made only after\n\napplication is made to the Pardon and Parole Board. Upon receipt of\n\nan application for pardon, the Board shall provide a copy of the\n\napplication to the district attorney, the victim or representative\n\nof the victim and the Office of the Attorney General within twenty\nas required in Section 10 of Article VI of the Oklahoma\n\nConstitution.\n\nI. Any consideration for pardon shall be made only after\n\napplication is made to the Pardon and Parole Board. Upon receipt of\n\nan application for pardon, the Board shall provide a copy of the\n\napplication to the district attorney, the victim or representative\n\nof the victim and the Office of the Attorney General within twenty\n\n(20) business days of receipt of such application. The district\n\nattorney and the victim or representative of the victim shall have\n\ntwenty (20) business days to provide written recommendation or\n\nprotest prior to the consideration of the application. The Board\n\nshall schedule the application on a pardon docket in compliance with\n\nthe notice requirements set forth herein.\n\nJ. In accordance with Section 10 of Article VI of the Oklahoma\n\nConstitution, the Board shall communicate to the Legislature, at\n\neach regular session, by providing a summary of the activities of\n\nthe Board. This summary shall include, but not be limited to, the\n\nfollowing Board activity:\n\n1. The approval or recommendation rates of the Board for both\n\nviolent and nonviolent offenses;\n\n2. The parole approval rates for each individual Board member\n\nfor both violent and nonviolent offenses; and\n\n3. The percentage of public comments to and personal\n\nappearances before the Board including victim protests and personal\n\nappearances, district attorney protests and personal appearances,\n\nand delegate recommendations and personal appearances on behalf of\n\nthe offender.\n\nThis summary shall be made available to the public through\n\npublication on the website of the Pardon and Parole Board.\n\nK. The Pardon and Parole Board shall provide a copy of their\n\nregular docket and administrative parole docket to each district\n\nattorney in this state at least twenty (20) days before such docket\n\nis considered by the Board, or in the case of a supplemental,\n\naddendum or special docket, at least ten (10) days before such\n\ndocket is considered by the Board, and shall notify the district\n\nattorney of any recommendations for commutations or paroles no later\n\nthan twenty (20) days after the docket is considered by the Board.\n\nL. The Pardon and Parole Board shall notify all victims or\n\nrepresentatives of the victim in writing at least twenty (20) days\n\nbefore an inmate is considered by the Board provided the Board has\n\nreceived a request from the victim or representatives of the victim\n\nfor notice. The Board shall provide all victims or representatives\n\nof the victim with the date, time and place of the scheduled meeting\n\nand rules for attendance and providing information or input to the\n\nBoard regarding the inmate or the crime. If requested by the victim\n\nor representatives of the victim, the Board shall allow the victim\n\nor representatives of the victim to testify at the parole hearing of\n\nthe inmate for at least five (5) minutes.\n\nM. The Pardon and Parole Board shall notify all victims or\n\nrepresentatives of the victim in writing of the decision of the\n\nBoard no later than twenty (20) days after the inmate is considered\n\nby the Board.\n\nN. Any notice required to be provided to the victims or the\n\nrepresentatives of the victim shall be mailed by first-class mail to\n\nthe last-known address of the victim or representatives of the\n\nvictim. It is the responsibility of the victims or representatives\n\nof the victim to provide the Pardon and Parole Board a current\n\nmailing address. The victim-witness coordinator of the district\n\nattorney shall assist the victims or representatives of the victim\n\nwith supplying their address to the Board if they wish to be\n\nnotified. Upon failure of the Pardon and Parole Board to notify a\n\nvictim who has requested notification and has provided a current\n\nmailing address, the final decision of the Board may be voidable,\n\ntrict\n\nattorney shall assist the victims or representatives of the victim\n\nwith supplying their address to the Board if they wish to be\n\nnotified. Upon failure of the Pardon and Parole Board to notify a\n\nvictim who has requested notification and has provided a current\n\nmailing address, the final decision of the Board may be voidable,\n\nprovided, the victim who failed to receive notification requests a\n\nreconsideration hearing within thirty (30) days of the\n\nrecommendation by the Board for parole. The Pardon and Parole Board\n\nmay reconsider previous action and may rescind a recommendation if\n\ndeemed appropriate as determined by the Board.\n\nO. For purposes of this section, \"victim\" shall mean all\n\npersons who have suffered direct or threatened physical or emotional\n\nharm, or financial loss as the result of the commission or attempted\n\ncommission of criminally injurious conduct, and \"representatives of\n\nthe victim\" shall mean those persons who are members of the\n\nimmediate family of the victim, including stepparents, stepbrothers,\n\nstepsisters, and stepchildren.\n\nP. All meetings of the Pardon and Parole Board shall comply\n\nwith Section 301 et seq. of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\nprovided that the Board shall have the authority to limit the number\n\nof persons attending in support of, or in opposition to, any inmate\n\nbeing considered for parole and shall have the authority to exclude\n\npersons from attendance in accordance with prison security\n\nregulations and the capacity of the meeting room. Persons excluded\n\nfrom attending the meeting under this provision shall be informed of\n\ntheir right to be informed of the vote of the Board in accordance\n\nwith Section 312 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Provided\n\nfurther, nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any\n\nmember of the press or any public official from attending any\n\nmeeting of the Pardon and Parole Board, except as provided by the\n\nOklahoma Open Meeting Act.\n\nQ. All victim information maintained by the Department of\n\nCorrections and the Pardon and Parole Board shall be confidential\n\nand shall not be released.\n\nR. When a commutation is granted or denied, the Secretary of\n\nState shall give notice of that fact to the district attorney and\n\nclerk of the court in the county where the sentence was originally\n\nobtained within thirty (30) business days. Said notice may be given\n\nby either first-class mail or email. Upon receipt of said notice,\n\nthe clerk of the court shall file the notice. The district attorney\n\nshall confirm that the clerk of the court has filed said notice.\n\nThe notice shall include the following information:\n\n1. The month and year in which the commutation was recommended\n\nby the Pardon and Parole Board;\n\n2. The decision of the Governor to grant or deny commutation;\n\nand\n\n3. If commutation is granted, the new term of sentence,\n\nincluding conditions thereof, if any, for each charged count.\n\nS. The district attorney in the district where the sentence was\n\noriginally obtained shall ensure that all victims or representatives\n\nof the victim are given notice of the decision regarding\n\ncommutation.","path":["OK Code","Title 57"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os57.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"6625fd588897c31d1b2b380885bab914c58c5a84da0b16abd57a3ccf2d9e598c","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-332.1b","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-332.20"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}