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UNITED STATES EX REL. SIMS v. SIELAFF

No. 76-2070.

563 F.2d 821 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. George SIMS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Allyn SIELAFF, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, and David Brierton, Warden, Stateville Correctional Center, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 31, 1977.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 6, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellants.

Thomas Peters, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellee.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and PELL and TONE, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 6, 1977.

PELL, Circuit Judge.

The question before us in this habeas corpus case is whether the State of Illinois denied petitioner Sims due process when it revoked his parole.

I

In 1959, Sims was convicted by an Illinois court of murder, and was sentenced to 199 years in prison. On December 15, 1972, he was released on parole.

On February 2,...

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