BRADFORD v. WEINSTEIN

Nos. 73-1751, 73-1921.

519 F.2d 728 (1974)

Howard E. BRADFORD, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellant, v. Robert WEINSTEIN et al., Appellees. Levi JENKINS, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Appellant, v. Walter D. TYLER et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1974.

Certiorari Granted June 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph S. Spritzer, Philadelphia, Pa. [Court-appointed counsel], and Howard Lesnick, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant in Nos. 73-1751 and 73-1921.

Emmet H. Clair, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Robert M. Ariail, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief) for appellees in No. 73-1921; Jacob L. Safron, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, on brief), for appellees in No. 73-1751.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and WINTER and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Granted June 2, 1975. See 95 S.Ct. 2394.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

These two appeals present two important questions: Does the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment have any application to the conduct of proceedings by a parole board in states which undertake to grant paroles to certain prisoners before service in full of the sentences imposed upon them? If so, may the prisoners complain of a denial of due process in a suit under 42 U.S.C...

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