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Article • May 15, 2007
NY Prisoner Allowed to Challenge Disciplinary Sanction That Didn't Lengthen His Sentence Via § 1983 by NY Prisoner Allowed to Challenge Disciplinary Sanction That Didn't Lengthen His Sentence Via § 1983 Donald Griffin, a New York state prisoner, was found guilty of drug use, based on an allegedly flawed urinalysis, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing, Parole
Federal Probation Officers Can't Order Probationers to Drug Treatment by Manuel Carrera, a federal prisoner in Puerto Rico, was sentenced to five years' supervised release after completing a 78-month prison sentence for drug sales. As a condition of his release, the district court directed Carrera's probation officer to set up …
Article • May 15, 2007
IL Prisoner Fails to Show Unreasonable Application of Federal Law on Habeas Review by IL Prisoner Fails to Show Unreasonable Application of Federal Law on Habeas Review Andrew Lockhart, an Illinois state prisoner, pled guilty to murder. He received a 35-year prison sentence and 3 years' mandatory supervision release (MSR). …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Complaints, Sentencing, Parole
Criminal History Trumps Reporter Liability For Denial Of Parole by Kansas state prisoner Thomas Lamb filed a State Court complaint against Tony Rizzo, a newspaper reporter, alleging libel for published articles containing alleged "lies and false information" which caused Lamb to be denied parole. Rizzo removed the case to the …
Minnesota Sex Predator Not Entitled to Jury Trial before Being Civilly Committed by Minnesota Sex Predator Not Entitled to Jury Trial before Being Civilly Committed James Poole, a Minnesota state prisoner, was civilly committed for an indefinite period of time under that state's sexual predator laws. He was not allowed …
NJ Prisoner's § 1983 Action Against Parole Board and Its Agents Dismissed as Incognizable by NJ Prisoner's § 1983 Action Against Parole Board and Its Agents Dismissed as Incognizable In 1997, John Williams was a New Jersey state parolee. His parole officer arrested him for changing jobs without permission and …
Article • May 15, 2007
WI DOC Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Holding Prisoner Past His Release Date by WI DOC Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Holding Prisoner Past His Release Date James Allen, a Wisconsin state prisoner, was held 377 days beyond his mandatory release date because he didn't have a Department …
Fed BOP Can Declare State Prison a Place of Fed Incarceration by Hassan Abdul-Malik was in New York state custody in 1993 when he was transferred to federal custody, convicted of postal robbery, and sentenced to thirty years in federal prison. He was then returned to state custody where he …
Article • May 15, 2007
$105,000 Verdict in Michigan Illegal Imprisonment by Three to four months after completing their Michigan prison sentences in 1994, Willie Thomas, Jr., Larry Reed, and Edward Grant were picked up and imprisoned in Jackson prison without a hearing. The defendant prison officials believed they had miscalculated the time served by …
Retroactive Federal DNA Testing for Parolees Upheld by The federal statute requiring DNA samples from everybody on supervised release was retroactively applicable to all persons who were on supervised release when it was enacted. This retroactive application did not deny due process or the Ex Post Facto Clause and was …
Suit Over Virginia DOC Drug Testing Practices Dismissed by The plaintiffs alleged that Virginia accepted money under the Violent Offenders Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grants program, which require it to implement a program of controlled substance testing for drug use, which must be consistent with the Attorney General's guidelines. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right to International Transfer to UK Prison by The plaintiff, a British citizen, sought to make the state convert his sentence from an indeterminate one to a determinate one so Britain would accept him under the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons. The federal court lacks mandamus jurisdiction …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Official Gets Immunity for Delaying Prisone'rs Release for One Day by Jail Official Gets Immunity for Delaying Prisoner's Release for One Day A county prison official was entitled to qualified immunity for delaying the plaintiff's release for a day based on an alleged warrant from Massachusetts that she had …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prejudice Required for Courtroom Shackling Claim by The plaintiff's claim of courtroom shackling amounts only to harmless error, since only one juror saw the plaintiff in handcuffs and none saw his leg restraints. At 691: ". . . [A] jury's brief or inadvertent glimpse of a defendant in physical restraints …
Article • May 15, 2007
AEDPA Applies to Disciplinary Habeas Petitions by A prisoner who has received a lawful disciplinary hearing is not entitled to another hearing on an administrative appeal challenging the conviction and sanction. Under AEDPA, state prisoners' habeas corpus petitions must challenge decisions that are contrary to Supreme Court precedent or involved …
Racial Discrimination Claim in IL Civil Commitment Must Be Brought under Habeas by The plaintiffs are present and former civil detainees in the Sexually Violent Persons Units of the prison system who alleged that commitment to that program reflected racial bias against African-American offenders who committed crimes against white victims. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Court Orders Sentence Credit for Time in Federal Custody by The plaintiff was held in federal custody for 87 days pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum executed two days before his state conditional release date. Later he was convicted of federal charges. He did not get credit …
Article • May 15, 2007
Habeas Required to Challenge Abuse Parole Arrest by The plaintiff's allegations of an abusive and improper arrest by parole officers and an improper parole violation hearing may not be pursued under § 1983 because he is incarcerated after having had his parole revoked. The court does not distinguish finely among …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Rejects Challenge to West Virginia Parole Denial by In West Virginia, the state Supreme Court says parole is a liberty interest. However, the Fourth Circuit says that only "minimal procedure" is required--at most, a statement of reasons for parole denial. (629) The fact that the petitioner's parole hearing was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Kentucky Sex Offender Classification Upheld by The plaintiff complained he was wrongfully classified as a sex offender based on a prior state conviction for criminal sexual abuse. The court finds that federal prison policy supports the classification, and classification decisions do not present constitutional issues. The classification based on a …
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