Terms Used In Ohio Code 2967.02

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Final release: means a remission by the adult parole authority of the balance of the sentence or prison term of a parolee or prisoner or the termination by the authority of a term of post-release control of a releasee. See Ohio Code 2967.01
• Pardon: means the remission of penalty by the governor in accordance with the power vested in the governor by the constitution. See Ohio Code 2967.01
• Parole: means , regarding a prisoner who is serving a prison term for aggravated murder or murder, who is serving a prison term of life imprisonment for rape or for felonious sexual penetration as it existed under section 2907. See Ohio Code 2967.01
• Parolee: means any inmate who has been released from confinement on parole by order of the adult parole authority or conditionally pardoned, who is under supervision of the adult parole authority and has not been granted a final release, and who has not been declared in violation of the inmate's parole by the authority or is performing the prescribed conditions of a conditional pardon. See Ohio Code 2967.01
• Post-release control: means a period of supervision by the adult parole authority after a prisoner's release from imprisonment, other than under a term of life imprisonment, that includes one or more post-release control sanctions imposed under section 2967. See Ohio Code 2967.01
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Releasee: means an inmate who has been released from confinement pursuant to section 2967. See Ohio Code 2967.01