PARKER v. CORROTHERS

Nos. 84-1284, 84-1484.

750 F.2d 653 (1984)

Patricia PARKER, Appellant, v. Helen CORROTHERS, Warden, Women's Unit; Robert Wells, Chairman, Board of Pardons & Paroles; A.L. Lockhart, Director of Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellees. John Bentley YANCEY, Appellant, v. Marvin EVANS, Jr., Administrator, and Robert Wells, Chairman, Arkansas Board of Probation and Parole, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 6, 1984.

Rehearing Denied February 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Gordon, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Randel Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before HEANEY, Circuit Judge, FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Patricia Parker and John Bentley Yancey appeal from district court decisions1 dismissing their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 petitions which alleged infringement on their fourteenth amendment due process rights by the manner in which the Arkansas parole system was conducted. Yancey also appeals the dismissal of his equal protection claim. The appellants' pro se petitions were dismissed on the ground that Arkansas...

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