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Date Posted: 00:45:49 04/08/02 Mon
Author: SHELLEY
Subject: Killer called 'Bulldog' up for parole..Bull friggin shit..he should serve all his time!!!


One of Oklahoma's most notorious inmates is up for parole - from a 500-year prison term he started serving barely 10 years ago.

Mikell Patrick "Bulldog" Smith, now being held in a maximum security prison in Arizona, had killed a school teacher, stabbed an inmate and escaped three times before he speared a knife into the chest of a McAlester prison guard in 1989. Smith was later sentenced by a Pittsburg County jury to 500 years in prison for the brutal assault, which nearly proved fatal for Oklahoma State Penitentiary Correctional Officer Mark Savage.

Smith's sentence is to be reviewed for possible parole this month by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, even though he has only served a fraction of the prison term.


J.D. Daniels, deputy director of Oklahoma Pardon and Parole, said the law requires the board to review every prisoner's sentence at certain increments, regardless of the length of the sentence. In Smith's case, his 500-year prison term is being reviewed because he has served 10 years of the assault and battery sentence.


"Believe it or not, that law was passed back in 1980 to keep board members from bringing them up any earlier than that," Daniels said of the mandatory 10-year sentence review.


Smith was moved from OSP to a maximum-security Arizona prison in 1999, not a moment too soon for McAlester prison officials. A week after his arrival at OSP in 1987 to await execution - his death sentence for killing a Moore school teacher was later commuted to life without parole - he stabbed another death row inmate nine times in the exercise yard. The following month, a guard spotted him fleeing the prison, and Smith was stopped by a shotgun blast.


In 1989, Smith stabbed Savage with a knife attached to the end of a broom handle. He jammed the knife into Savage's heart, using the broom handle as a spear though a narrow food passageway built into his cell door. The guard had bent down to the opening to answer a question Smith had asked when he was brutally attacked.


After his conviction, a pre-sentence report found Smith "is considered by some of the staff at OSP as the most dangerous man in the penitentiary."


In his report, former probation and parole officer W.P. Cannon wrote: "There is such regard for the defendant's potential for violence that a five-man cell entry team equipped with riot batons and an electronic shield, along with a shift supervisor and a video camera operator, is required each time the defendant is removed from his cell.


"He appears content and even proud of his violent nature which is indicated by the defendant's name 'Bull Dog.'"


During his 1994 trial on the inmate murder - at which 17 prison guards were needed to secure the courtroom - a psychologist reported Smith had brain damage which could affect his ability to control rage.


While at Arizona, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board reported, Smith has completed several rehabilitation programs with titles such as "Cage Your Rage," "Conflict Resolution" and "Mind Over Mood."


Even if Smith is paroled this month from the lengthy 500-year prison term, officials say it's unlikely he'll be released from prison anytime soon. In addition to the 1986 Moore murder, for which he was initially sentenced to death, Smith was also convicted of brutally stabbing another inmate to death at OSP in 1993 and received a second sentence of life without parole.


Daniels notes the Pardon and Parole Board has to review a sentence after a third of it has been served - regardless of length - for inmates who are in prison on their third or subsequent conviction. And since a life sentence - or 500-year prison term - is "capped off" at 45 years for purposes of parole eligibility, is parole is rejected this month, Smith's 500-year term is to be reviewed again in five years. That's when he will have served "one-third" of 45 years.


"That's another legislation," Daniels said of the rules governing parole review time matrixes.


So what about his "life without parole" sentences? Daniels said those could also come before the board - but only at the request of the inmate.


Again, legislation requires inmates be permitted to ask for parole from such sentences.


"By law, they can still ask to have their sentence commuted at any time," he said.

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