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Washington Earned Early Release Credits Create Due Process Liberty Interests
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2000
by Mark Cook
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2000, page 19
The Washington State Court of Appeals, Division One, has held that: (1) a prisoner's right to community custody placement created limited due process liberty interests, but (2) delay did not violate prisoner's due process rights.
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Good Time,
Parole.
Location:
Washington.
Matthew S. Crowder, a Washington prisoner, was convicted of two counts of third degree rape ...
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