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HOLMES v. UNITED STATES BD. OF PAROLE

No. 76-1012.

541 F.2d 1243 (1976)

Auckland HOLMES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES BOARD OF PAROLE and United States Bureau of Prisons, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1976.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Marshall Meisburg, Jr., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Samuel K. Skinner, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Julius Lucius Echeles, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, SWYGERT, Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 28, 1976.

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

The question in this appeal is whether a federal prisoner is entitled to procedural due process prior to being labeled a "Special Offender," a designation that results in "special handling" during confinement.2

Auckland Holmes, convicted of possession and sale of heroin in the Northern District of Illinois, was sentenced to twenty years in...

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