After five years in prison, Kamal Abbasi was about to face the parole board. Over his years in prison, he had learned the strategies he would need to employ to secure parole – focusing less on his professed innocence and more on providing evidence that he was not a threat to the community. Kamal worked […]

After five years in prison, Kamal Abbasi was about to face the parole board. Over his years in prison, he had learned the strategies he would need to employ to secure parole – focusing less on his professed innocence and more on providing evidence that he was not a threat to the community. Kamal worked hard with his lawyers to present the evidence required to ensure that the parole board would see in him that he was not a risk to the community. Kamal put his case articulately, but was, alas, unsuccessful. His parole bid was denied.  What Kamal Abbasi needed to know, however, is that his bid was doomed from the moment it was organized, regardless of the quality of his submission. You see, Kamal was scheduled to make his submission just before lunch, and almost no submissions made immediately before lunch were ever successful. Research has found that…