Paul Jackson v. David Jamrog, Warden

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from the district court’s denial of habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, we are asked to determine the constitutionality of a Michigan statute, M.C.L.A. § 791.234(9), which permits an appeal to state court by prosecutors and crime victims from decisions of the state parole board granting parole, but provides no equivalent right of appeal to state prisoners who are denied parole. The petitioner, Paul Jackson, is a Michigan prison inmate who contends that the state legislature’s 1999 amendment to § 791.234(9) that produced this dichotomy violates…