Legal Opinion
Evans v. Secretary Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 16, 2011No. 09-2657PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JORDAN, Circuit Judge.
The Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and other officials of the Commonwealth (collectively “the Commonwealth”)1 appeal the May 29, 2009 Order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granting William Evans’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and ordering Evans’s release. The District Court held that Evans’s due process rights had been violated by a change in the calculation of his release date. For the following reasons, we conclude that the District Court erred in holding that Evans had a…
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