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Board schedules full pardon hearings for many prescreen applicants and denies others
Summary
During the prescreen docket on July 13, 2026, the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles scheduled dozens of applicants for full hearings to allow further inquiry, and denied others where members cited protective orders, recent supervision, registry status, or seriousness of offenses.
After completing the expedited docket, the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles moved through its prescreen docket (cases requiring victim notification or involving more serious offenses) and made determinations to bring many applicants for full hearings while denying a number of others.
Board members spoke case by case about the rationale for either referring an applicant to a full hearing or denying the application. Common reasons to schedule a hearing included a request for more detail on treatment programs, verification of completed community service, recent completion of supervision, or substantially different accounts between applicant and victim that the board wished to explore in person. Examples of applicants scheduled for full hearings included Isaiah Douglas Brown, Jermaine Clark, Joseph Benjamin Liberto Sr., Gary David Martino, Miguel Jarrera, Michael Christopher Hooks, Terrence Jones, and many others recorded on the docket.
Denials often centered on public‑safety concerns: applicants with recent violent offenses, active protective orders, registry status, or repeated offenses were commonly denied. For example, the board denied Mario Tropeano and Troy Lamont Wiley on those grounds and recorded reasons such as the seriousness of the offense and the diminished public‑safety protection that expungement would cause.
Raffaro Berry sat in for one prescreen case (Brian James Spears) after Sergio Rodriguez recused; the panel then denied Spears’ application, citing multiple firearm charges, discharges and injuries recorded in the file.
The board closed the prescreen docket after calling dozens of applicants forward for hearings and completing its public business. Staff will notify applicants and victims as required and schedule dates for full hearings.
The board’s recorded votes and reasons will be provided to applicants by email per the process described at the start of the meeting.
(Reporting based on the board’s July 13, 2026 public prescreen docket.)
