Jones v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Our unwillingness to intrude into the Board's decision on the disposition of a parole violation, cited with approval by the court in Cook, 45 did not constrain the Hyser court from reviewing the procedures used by the Board in conducting preliminary interviews, or from establishing requirements therefor. So in the instant case, where it appears that a procedure regularly employed by the Board results in substantial harm to parolees for no countervailing purpose, we cannot countenance the continuance of the practice on an unelaborated claim of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Johnston

2. “has two parts: (A) the burden of holding hearings in distant state prisons where parole violators may be incarcerated on their intervening sentences, and (B) the cost of additional hearings when the Board decides to reevaluate a decision based on prison behavior during the intervening sentence. The second interest the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Johnston

3. “for purpose of federal habeas corpus challenge to denial of his constitutional right under Smith v. Hooey to speedy trial on pending indictment in another state). We hold that a parole violator warrant lodged as a detainer 9 represents sufficient”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Johnston