Ex Parte MacEyra

Today the Court delivers opinions in a trilogy of causes raising a common question. That is, when the Board of Pardons and Paroles (“Board”) comes to consider whether parole is to be revoked, what process is due a parolee who, by being convicted of a felony offense committed while released on parole, is shown to have violated a validly imposed obligation and condition of release that the parolee “shall obey all Municipal, County, State and Federal laws?” 1

Implicated, of course, are the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the Due Course…