James Randall Smith Attorey at Law
1201 South Shepherd Houston, TX 77019
Tel: 713/630-0500 e-mail: james@texasparole.com
Fax: 713/630-0553 Website: www.texasparole.com
FY 2006 Discretionary MS Approval Rates by Offense Type
Offense Votes Sep-05 Oct-05 Nov-05 Dec-05 Jan-06 Feb-06 Mar-06 Apr-06 May-06 Jun-06 Jul-06 Aug-06 FY Total
To Date
Violent Aggravated Non-Sexual Considered 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Approved 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Approval Rate  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A 0.00%  N/A  N/A  N/A
Violent Aggravated Sexual Considered 0 4 4 2 2 3 6 1 7 4 2 1 36
Approved 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5
Approval Rate  N/A 0.00% 50.00% 50.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 25.00% 0.00% 100.00% 13.89%
Violent Non-Aggravated Non-Sexual Considered 194 209 212 285 258 224 295 311 306 293 305 292 3184
Approved 61 71 65 84 70 72 78 106 94 84 86 106 977
Approval Rate 31.44% 33.97% 30.66% 29.47% 27.13% 32.14% 26.44% 34.08% 30.72% 28.67% 28.20% 36.30% 30.68%
Non-Aggravated Sexual Considered 13 13 16 29 29 22 27 27 29 29 22 20 276
Approved 2 1 2 5 6 2 4 6 6 4 4 3 45
Approval Rate 15.38% 7.69% 12.50% 17.24% 20.69% 9.09% 14.81% 22.22% 20.69% 13.79% 18.18% 15.00% 16.30%
Non-Violent Considered 819 981 1061 1170 1202 941 1304 1176 1211 1293 1228 1143 13529
Approved 472 530 562 687 711 557 803 714 722 720 717 654 7849
Approval Rate 57.63% 54.03% 52.97% 58.72% 59.15% 59.19% 61.58% 60.71% 59.62% 55.68% 58.39% 57.22% 58.02%
Total Considered 1026 1207 1293 1486 1491 1190 1632 1515 1553 1619 1557 1456 17025
Approved 535 602 631 777 787 631 885 826 822 809 807 764 8876
Approval Rate 52.14% 49.88% 48.80% 52.29% 52.78% 53.03% 54.23% 54.52% 52.93% 49.97% 51.83% 52.47% 52.14%