BENFIELD v. BOUNDS

Nos. 73-2159, 75-1069, 75-1867 and 75-1868.

540 F.2d 670 (1976)

Donald BENFIELD, Appellant, v. Vernon BOUNDS, etc., et al., Appellees. Robert E. X. CARROLL, Appellant, v. David L. JONES, etc., et al., Appellees. William Floyd JOHNSON, Jr., Appellant, v. V. L. BOUNDS, etc., et al., Appellees. Leroi DENSON, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, etc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah G. Mailman, Raleigh, N. C., Court-Appointed Counsel for appellants in Nos. 75-1867, 75-1069 and 75-1868 (Jack Greenberg and Stanley A. Bass, New York City, on brief for Appellant in No. 73-2159).

Jacob L. Safron, Special Deputy Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C., and (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C., on brief) for appellees in Nos. 73-2159, 75-1069 and 75-1867.

Burnett Miller, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richmond, Va., and (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee in No. 75-1868.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, CRAVEN, Circuit Judge, and KAUFMAN, District Judge.


FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge:

In these four cases each of the plaintiffs, three of them confined in North Carolina correctional institutions and one, Denson, in such a Virginia institution, appeal from denial of relief sought in connection with transfers and/or reclassifications. Each of them, proceeding pro se, has alleged that his intra-confinement system transfers and/or reclassifications occurred without his being afforded that degree of procedural...

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