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DOUGLAS v. MUNCY

Nos. 77-1471 - 77-1473.

570 F.2d 499 (1978)

Ernest Lee DOUGLAS, Appellee, v. R. M. MUNCY, Individually and as Superintendent, Powhatan Correctional Center of the Department of Corrections, Commonwealth of Virginia, and H. G. Spann, Individually and as Captain and Officer in Charge, West Housing Unit, Powhatan Correctional Center of the Department of Corrections, Commonwealth of Virginia, Appellants. Ernest Lee DOUGLAS, Appellee, v. Jack DAVIS, Director, Department of Corrections, Appellant. Ernest Lee DOUGLAS, Appellant, v. Wyatt A. MOOREFIELD, Individually and as Probation and Parole Officer, Probation and Parole District No. 1, Commonwealth of Virginia, Pleasant C. Shields, Individually and as Chairman and Member, Virginia Probation and Parole Board, Nathaniel W. Perdue, Individually and as Member of Virginia Probation and Parole Board, W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Individually and as Member, Virginia Probation and Parole Board, Mrs. Margaret B. Davis, Individually and as Member, Virginia Probation and Parole Board, Morris L. Ridley, Individually and as Member, Virginia Probation and Parole Board, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Obenshain, Richmond, Va. (Obenshain, Hinnant, Dolbeare & Beale, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee in 77-1471 and 77-1472 and for appellant in 77-1473.

Linwood T. Wells, and Guy W. Horsley, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Anthony F. Troy, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants in 77-1471 and 77-1472 and for appellees in 77-1473.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and WIDENER, Circuit Judge.

FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge:

Charging that he had not been accorded due process in the revocation of his parole, Ernest Lee Douglas, a Virginia prisoner, sought habeas corpus relief in the district court. Additionally, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Douglas asked for damages for the denial of his constitutional rights from (1) the defendant Moorefield, his parole officer, who allegedly had arbitrarily enforced the conditions of his parole; (2) the members of the...

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