GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 90

SENATE BILL 121

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PAROLE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS  FOR COMMITTED YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS SENTENCED UNDER CHAPTER 90 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-95(h)(5) reads as rewritten:

"(5)      A person sentenced under this subsection  is not eligible for early release or early parole if the person is sentenced as a committed youthful offender and the sentencing judge may not suspend the sentence or place the person sentenced on probation.  A person sentenced under this subsection as a committed youthful offender shall be eligible for release or parole no earlier than that person would have been had he been sentenced under this subsection as a regular offender.  The sentencing judge may reduce the fine, or impose a prison term less than the applicable minimum prison term provided by this subsection, or suspend the prison term imposed and place a person on probation when such person has, to the best of his knowledge, provided substantial assistance in the identification, arrest, or conviction of any accomplices, accessories, co-conspirators, or principals if the sentencing judge enters in the record a finding that the person to be sentenced has rendered such substantial assistance."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of April, 1987.