United States First Circuit

In action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for declaratory and injunctive relief against members of a parole board who voted to deny parole to a prisoner who had been convicted of second-degree murder of a police officer, the district court's dismissal is affirmed, where: 1) there was no violation of the prisoner's federal procedural or substantive due process rights in the denial; and 2) the complaint was inadequate to state a federal equal protection violation, even if the prisoner received less favorable parole treatment because his victim was a police officer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/02/2012
• Published 05/02/2012

Judges

• Souter

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas More Dickinson, Jennifer L. Sullivan