
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, November 1, 1994                   TAG: 9411010102
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

DEMOCRATS ON SENTENCING COMMISSION

Three lawyers who worked in Democratic administrations were appointed Monday to the sentencing commission established by Republican Gov. George Allen's legislation abolishing parole.

House of Delegates Speaker Thomas Moss Jr., D-Norfolk, named H. Lane Kneedler of Charlottesville, Bobby Norris Vassar of Richmond and Peter Decker Jr. of Norfolk to the Virginia Sentencing Commission.

The 17-member panel will develop discretionary sentencing guidelines for use by judges in felony cases.

Kneedler was chief deputy attorney general from 1986-92. Vassar, senior counsel and legislative director for U.S. Rep. Robert Scott, D-3rd, was chairman of the Virginia Parole Board from 1982-87. Decker served on the Board of Corrections for more than a decade.

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