No Claim for Violent Offender Parole Denial 
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Published: July 11, 2012
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Rights, Judge Henry F. Floyd
Plaintiff Virginia inmates have not stated due process and ex post facto claims against defendant members of the Virginia Parole Board in their official capacities for an alleged policy of denying parole to parole-eligible inmates convicted of violent offenses; the 4th Circuit affirms dismissal of the inmates’ complaint.
Plaintiffs assert the board has implemented an unwritten ...
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