UNITED STATES EX REL. JOHNSON v. McGINNIS

No. 83 C 1362.

571 F.Supp. 270 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Leon JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. Kenneth McGINNIS, Warden, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

On Attorney General's Report to the Court October 5, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Johnson, pro se; Stephen P. Carponelli and Gregory A. Adamski, Carponelli & Krug, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen. of Ill., Marcia Friedl, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

Leon Johnson ("Johnson") petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 ("Section 2254"), asserting the Illinois Prisoner Review Board ("Board") deprived him of due process by providing an inadequate statement of its rationale when it denied him parole in November 1982 (the "November Rationale"). Respondents and Johnson then filed cross-motions for summary judgment.

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