SINGLETARY v. REILLY

No. 04-7013.

452 F.3d 868 (2006)

Charles SINGLETARY, Appellant v. Edward F. REILLY, Jr., in his official capacity as Commissioner of the U.S. Parole Commission, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 7, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catharine F. Easterly, Assistant Public Defender, Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia, argued the cause for appellant. With her on the brief was Timothy P. O'Toole, Assistant Public Defender.

Elizabeth H. Danello, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellees. With her on the brief were Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese, III and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorneys.

Before: SENTELLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and EDWARDS, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.

BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Charles Singletary's parole was revoked in 1996 based on his alleged participation in a murder. The evidence tying Singletary to this offense—for which he has been imprisoned for the last ten years—consisted solely of hearsay testimony relayed by a prosecutor and an investigating detective. The reliability of the hearsay, most of it multilayered, was never established,...

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