DIXON v. ALEXANDER

No. 83-5402.

741 F.2d 121 (1984)

Harvey Douglas DIXON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lamar ALEXANDER and Harold Bradley, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.D. Maddox, argued, Maddox, Ivey & Parish, Huntingdon, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Tenn., Robert Grunow, Jennifer Helton Small, Jerry Smith, argued, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, EDWARDS and TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judges.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the anomalous situation where counsel for the State of Tennessee and counsel for a defendant in a state criminal case agreed to a plea bargain which was approved by the Tennessee trial court but which contained a parole provision in contravention of a Tennessee statute.

Appellant, after some proceedings in the Tennessee state courts, eventually commenced an action in the United States District Court for the Middle...

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