Parole hearings to resume May 19

WINSTON COUNTY - The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles will hold 161 parole hearings in May beginning on the 19th as the Board resumes hearings following postponements because of COVID-19. The hearings will be closed to public attendance, but crime victims and other interested parties can provide written statements to be considered by the board.
 
Officials, crime victims, and crime victim representatives who receive notice of an upcoming parole or pardon hearing can submit their views to the Board via written statement. Those statements, along with the inmate’s name and AIS number, can be emailed to victim.services@paroles.alabama.gov or mailed to ATTN: Victim Services Unit, State of Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, 100 Capitol Commerce Blvd, Suite 310,  Montgomery, AL 36117. These written submissions must be received by the Board at least five business days before the scheduled hearing.
 
Others wishing to express their support or opposition to a pardon or parole can do so by emailing their statements, along with the inmate’s name and AIS#, to notifications@paroles.alabama.gov or mailing them to ATTN: Board Operations Division, State of Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, 100 Capitol Commerce Blvd, Suite 310, Montgomery, AL 36117. These written submissions must be received at least five business days in advance of the scheduled hearing.
 
If someone is unable to submit a written statement, that person can contact the Board by telephone at (334) 242-8700 on or before the fifth business day proceeding the scheduled hearing. Those views will be summarized and added to the inmate’s file for the Board’s review.

Inmates with local/regional ties who will be up for parole this month are:

Justin Blake Cornelius - convicted of robbery second degree in Walker County and sentenced in 2014 to 20 years.

Joshua Ray Hamm - convicted of possession/receiving a controlled substance in Franklin County and sentenced to 2 years in June, 2019.

Randell Gene Johnson - convicted of possession/receiving a controlled substance in Marion County and sentenced to six years in 2018.

Susan Vanessa Moody - convicted of possession/receiving a controlled substance in Cullman County and sentenced to 16 years in 2012.  Moody was sentenced to another possession charge in May, 2019, a 40-month concurrent sentence.

Ricky Patterson - convicted of  second degree rape in Marion County and sentenced to 20 years in 2013.

Carlton Lee Vaughn Whiteside - convicted of distributing a controlled substance in Winston County and sentenced to 96 months in 2018.  Whiteside was sentenced to 1 year and two months in February, 2020, for trafficking methamphetamine in Marion County.  That sentence was to run concurrently with his 2018 sentence.

Kenneth Brandon Cummings - convicted of manufacturing a controlled substance in Marion County and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2017.

Cody Ray Noble - convicted of second degree theft of property in Marion County and sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2018.

Jamie Ray Abbott - convicted of possession of a controlled substance in Franklin County and sentenced to 65 months in prison in 2017.  Abbott was subsequently convicted on similar charges in Marion County and sentenced to 10 years total in February, 2019, to be served concurrently with his 2017 sentence.

Steven Eugene Birchfield - convicted of violating the sex offender registration law in Marion County and sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2017.

Jared Chase Dollar - convicted of third degree burglary in Franklin County and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2017.  Dollar was also sentenced at the same time on a separate third degree burglary charge to a 156-month sentence to run concurrently with the other burglary conviction.  In 2018, Dollar was sentenced to an additional 60 month concurrent sentence in a third degree theft of property case in Lawrence County.

Angela Gail Roberts - sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2016 on a manufacturing of a controlled substance conviction in Walker County.  Also serving concurrent sentences of possession of a controlled substance on convictions out of Marion and Morgan counties.

Jimmy Scott Garrett - convicted of manufacturing a controlled substance in Winston County and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2013.

Charles Demario Cherry - convicted of distributing a controlled substance, first degree robbery and second degree kidnapping in Walker County and sentenced in 2002 to 20 years in prison.