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After 2-year pause, Connecticut to resume hearing inmate sentence commutation requests FacebookTwitterEmail Attorney Alex TaubesContributed Photo / NEW HAVEN — The state Board of Pardons and Parole for more than two years effectively ceased hearing inmates’ requests to have their sentences commuted, in part due to what an official said is an ongoing review of its application processes. While the process now is expected to get rebooted this summer with changes in eligibility and the application process, the delay meant inmates did not have an opportunity to be heard, defense attorney Alex Taubes said. Board Executive Director Richard Sparaco said that the panel suspended its acceptance of commutation applications in 2020 while it reviewed policies and procedures. The board had reviewed only one application in 2019, records show.
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Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification In the Press Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification Four years ago, Connecticut garnered national recognition for its innovative, rehabilitation-focused TRUE Unit at the Cheshire Correctional Institution. Now, one of the unit’s mentors has been granted a second chance, succeeding in winning an unprecedented sentence modification. On January 15, 2021, Judge David Gold of the Hartford Superior Court announced his decision resentencing Clyde Meikle, a Yale Law School Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic (CMIC) client, to 28 years from the 50 to which he was originally sentenced for fatally shooting his cousin. On Friday, December 18, 2020, Meikle and his legal team, led by Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara and five CMIC Yale Law School students, appeared at a hearing in Hartford Superior Court to modify Meikle’s sentence to reflect his record of rehabilitation. Meikle has been incarcerated for 26 years on a sentence for murder. The Hartford State’s Attorney’s Office joined Meikle’s petition for a 28-year sentence. Clinic members Felisha Miles ’21 and Kate Levien ’21 presented the case before Judge Gold.
Clyde Meikle prays silently beside his attorney, Yale Law School’s Miriam Gohara, as he awaits Judge David Gold’s ruling on his request for a shorter sentence. A Hartford Superior Court judge granted a sentence modification on Friday to Clyde Meikle, a man serving a 50-year prison sentence for killing his cousin in 1994. “The Clyde Meikle of 1994 was a different person than the Clyde Meikle that stands before the court today,” Judge David Gold said before granting Meikle’s sentence modification, cutting his sentence from 50 years to 28. Meikle killed his cousin Clifford Walker 26 years ago by shooting him in the stomach during a dispute over a parking space at his family’s house on Enfield Street in Hartford’s North End. Meikle, who long suffered from substance abuse and unresolved trauma at the time of the shooting, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1998. He has served 26 years so far, during which he has earned a GED and the credits for a college degree and become one of the founding mentors of the T.R.U.E. Unit, which pairs older incarcerated people with younger ones, to help keep them out of the prison system.
After killing cousin, Clyde Meikle found purpose in prison. Now he's getting out early. Kelan Lyons, CTMirror.org FacebookTwitterEmail 1of17 Cheshire Correctional Institution on Sept. 23, 2020. Thirteen years earlier, the site of an informal mock trial for incarcerated men organized by Clyde Meikle.Yehyun Kim / CTMirror.orgShow MoreShow Less 2of17 A photo of Clyde Meikle from a graduation ceremony for his associate’s degree on display in his mother’s home.Yehyun Kim / CTMirror.orgShow MoreShow Less 3of17 4of17 Dimaya Williams, 6, looks at photos of her uncle Clyde Meikle in prison with his family members.Yehyun Kim / CTMirror.orgShow MoreShow Less