Reference no: EM133548735

Question: Inmate D has a thirty-year sentence for killing her husband. She states that her husband had been beaten her during their fifteen-year marriage, and there was some evidence that she had called the police and stated her husband had hit her but denied the accusations when the police came. She is thirty-four years old and has three children, who are being cared for by relatives. She has a college education. She has no prior arrests and no indication of prior assaultive behavior. She has served eight years and the minimum eligibility is ten years. There is opposition by the victim's family. Her conditional release is twenty-five years. How much time should she serve? Would you grant parole? Why or why not?