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DUMSCHAT v. BOARD OF PARDONS, STATE OF CONN.

Nos. 481, 482, Dockets 78-2124, 78-2125.

618 F.2d 216 (1980)

David DUMSCHAT, Plaintiff-Appellee, James Brown, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton, Intervening Plaintiff-Appellees, v. BOARD OF PARDONS, STATE OF CONNECTICUT, and Richard K. Lublin (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Paul J. McQuillan, John P. Cotter, and Michael E. DuBissette, Members of the Board of Pardons, Defendants-Appellants. James BROWN, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOARD OF PARDONS, STATE OF CONNECTICUT, and Paul J. McQuillan (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Michael E. DuBissette, John Speziale and Philip Tatoian, Members of the Board of Pardons, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen. of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, Conn. (Stephen J. O'Neill, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Stephen Wizner, Yale Legal Services, New Haven, Conn. (Dennis E. Curtis, Alice Bussiere and Judith Resnik, New Haven, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and SMITH and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This case returns to us on remand from the United States Supreme Court. In our previous decision we affirmed, per curiam, the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, M. Joseph Blumenfeld, Judge, that inmates serving life sentences in Connecticut prisons have a due process right to written statements from the state Board of Pardons explaining the denial of their applications for pardon. See

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