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Ninth Circuit: Washington Law Creates Liberty Interest in Sex Offenders’ Early Release to Community Custody
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2008, page 42
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Liberty Interests,
Good Time,
Parole,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Washington.
Ninth Circuit: Washington Law Creates Liberty Interest in Sex Offenders’ Early Release to Community Custody
A divided panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that Washington State statute RCW § 9.94A.710(1) (2006), which permits application of earned prison conduct credits towards early release to a consecutive sentence ...
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