STATE EX REL. BERTRAND v. HUNT

No. 56501.

325 So.2d 788 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Theda BERTRAND v. Elayn HUNT, Director, Dept. of Corrections, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 19, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie Brown, Dist. Atty., James E. Boren, Asst. Dist. Atty., for defendant-respondent.

Vincent Wilkins, Jr., Director, Roland T. Huson, III, Appellate Counsel, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-relator.


SANDERS, Chief Justice.

Relator, Theda Bertrand, applied to this Court for habeas corpus relief, complaining that her detention in St. Gabriel Prison is illegal because her parole was automatically revoked without a final revocation hearing. We granted her writ to determine whether the procedure followed by the State in revoking her parole constituted sufficient compliance with the requirements set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Morrissey v. Brewer...

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