Bounds Up For Another Parole Hearing in October

64 year old Gerald Wayne (J.B.) Bounds of McMinnville will be up for another parole hearing in October.
Bounds, convicted of first degree murder, is serving a life prison sentence at the Southeast Regional Correctional Facility in Pikeville.
Last fall, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to concur with a recommendation by two of it’s members Yusuf Hakeem and Charles Taylor that Bounds be denied parole due to the seriousness of the offense in the 1981 fatal shooting of 27 year old Sherman Wright of DeKalb County.
Following Bounds’ last parole hearing in October, 2010, Hakeem and Taylor recommended that Bounds be “put off” for two years before his next parole hearing, but the state board decided instead to review Bound’s case again in October, 2011.
The board requested that Bounds undergo a psychological evaluation prior to his next hearing, as was recommended by parole board members Hakeem and Taylor.