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Texas Prisoners May Challenge Discretionary Mandatory Release Procedures
Loaded on June 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2001, page 27
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that Texas prisoners have the right to use a state habeas corpus action under Article 11.07, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, to challenge the procedures used to deny them mandatory release. David Lee Geiken, a Texas state prisoner, who had been sentenced …
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