United States Ninth Circuit

A Washington state law providing for convicted sex offenders' early release into community custody does not create a liberty interest that is protected under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/17/2007
• Decided 12/22/2008
• Published 12/22/2008

Judges

• Before:  STEPHEN REINHARDT, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tyler A. Baker, Todd Gregorian, and Heather N. Mewes, Fenwick & West, LLP, Mountain View, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rob McKenna, Sara J. Olson, and Gregory J. Rosen, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Criminal Justice Division, Olympia, WA, for the defendants-appellees.