REO v. SIGLER

No. 127, Docket 76-2118.

567 F.2d 1212 (1978)

Patrick Vincent REO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Maurice H. SIGLER, Chairman, United States Parole Board, and George C. Wilkinson, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Timothy McNamara, Hartford, Conn., for petitioner-appellant.

Raymond L. Sweigart, Asst. U. S. Atty., District of Connecticut, New Haven, Conn. (Richard Blumenthal, U. S. Atty., District of Connecticut, and Peter J. Ponziani, Law Student Intern, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for respondents-appellees.

Before GURFEIN and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges, and COFFRIN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

We have had difficulty in reaching a consensus on the following issue: whether the failure to notify a federal prisoner of the reasons why the Regional Director seeks to annul a favorable parole decision of a local panel is a denial of due process when the central assumption would involve a disputed question of fact on which the prisoner could not be heard until after the review by the National Directors is made and its decision rendered.

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