CORBETT v. LUTHER

Nos. 282, 283, Dockets 85-2168, 85-2186.

778 F.2d 950 (1985)

Mark A. CORBETT, Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Dennis LUTHER, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut; United States Parole Commission; and United States Bureau of Prisons, Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 9, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Hughes, Asst. U.S. Atty., D. Conn., New Haven, Conn. (Alan H. Nevas, U.S. Atty., D. Conn., of counsel), for appellants-cross-appellees.

George Cardona, Student Counsel, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn. (Mary A. McCarthy, Miriam Berkman, Stephen Wizner, Sally Zanger, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, of counsel), for appellee-cross-appellant.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, VAN GRAAFEILAND and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States Parole Commission (the Commission) from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Ellen Bree Burns, J., granting in part Mark A. Corbett's petition for a writ of habeas corpus and ordering the Commission to reconsider Corbett's request that it seek a reduction in his minimum sentence. Corbett also cross-appeals from the district court's denial of his claim that the Commission...

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