BAXTER v. DAVIS

No. 71-1155.

450 F.2d 459 (1971)

Robert O. BAXTER, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Martin P. DAVIS, Chairman of the Massachusetts Parole Board, et al., Respondents, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Cratsley, Cambridge, Mass., with whom John Bookston and Kevin O'Donnell, Cambridge, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Charles E. Chase, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., and John J. Irwin, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Div., were on brief, for appellees.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This petition for habeas corpus asks that we declare that a series of procedural safeguards is constitutionally required in a state's parole revocation process. The relevant facts, briefly stated, are as follows. Petitioner was paroled on October 20, 1967 from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord, where he had served nine months of an indeterminate sentence for receiving a stolen motor vehicle...

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