WILLIAMS v. MISSOURI BD. OF PROBATION & PAROLE

No. 78-1136.

585 F.2d 922 (1978)

James E. WILLIAMS and Junior Theobald, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Appellants, v. MISSOURI BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE, W. R. Vermillion, Chairman, F. N. Strum and Dick Moore, Members of the Board, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Thompson of Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Kansas City, Mo., argued; Ronald L. Roseman and Edward F. Ford, III, Kansas City, Mo., on briefs, for appellants.

Paul Robert Otto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., argued; John D. Asncroft, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., on briefs, for appellees.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and HANSON, Senior District Judge.


STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal we are again confronted with the question of whether an inmate in a state prison is entitled to the protection of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in his consideration for release on parole. We are satisfied that the due process clause is implicated and, accordingly, we reverse and remand to the district court.1

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