HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!
My name is Bryan Keith Beatty. I have been incarcerated for the past thirty-five (35) years. My crime committed at the age of eighteen (18), was six (6) counts of armed robbery. This was my first time being involved in crime and I have no juvenile record. I was given a sentence of thirty-six (36) years in the city of Newport News, VA. for the three (3) armed robberies there, and twelve (12) years in the city of Hampton, VA., and this time was ran together for a total sentence of forty-eight (48) years with no discretionary parole.
The law that had me without discretionary parole is §53.1-151. B1.
In 2017, an investigative report was conducted by a reporter by the name of Tim Eberly with the Virginian-Pilot. This investigative report resulted in the VA. Parole Board giving us the discretionary parole that we were supposed to have had over thirty (30) years ago.
This report starts, and I quote: " The state parole board is changing how it interprets Virginia's three-strikes law in a way that could free hundreds of inmates-many of them nonviolent-who are serving prison terms significantly longer than the typical first-degree murderer, the boards chairwoman said Saturday."
I filed a clemency petition to the then Governor Mr. Terry McAuliffe. The petition was filed on the date of August 03, 2016 and I was denied on the date of October 04, 2017. However, about three (3) months later the Governor conditionally pardons six (6) "unjust sentences".
I have been taken up for parole three (3) times, and turned down three (3) times. I was four (4) years and eleven (11) months infraction free at the time of my first parole hearing. I had a couple of infractions after that first hearing for not taking a cell partner. I had been in segregation for sixteen (16) years and then spent from 2013-2018 in a single cell pod. I am now in a single cell.
I do not know any entertainers and have no one that can look into this three-strikes investigation. There is supposed to be only 260 of us under this law. I have done all this time, and at this time my projected release date is 2026. If the Parole Board had not misinterpreted the §53.1, who is to say how my incarceration would have gone? I have had an arduous incarceration. I am at the stage that I have completed all the cognitive classes offered, and I am just in prison. This is no longer justice for a crime, it is a simple miscarriage of justice! I will appreciate any help I can get for someone to bring it to light that the investigative report did not rectify or resolve the misinterpretation made by the Parole Board of the §53.1. Thank you in advance for any help I can get.