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Liberty Interest in Erroneous Parole Release
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1999
by Ronald Young
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1999, page 22
The court of-appeals for the Fourth circuit held that a parolee's interest in his continued liberty crystallized during his two years of successful parole, even though he had been released in error, requiring strict scrutiny of the State's intentional infringement of that interest. The court also held that in this ...
Filed under:
Liberty Interests,
Sentencing,
Parole,
Habeas Corpus,
Wrongful Release.
Location:
North Carolina.
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