Michael Drankus v. Mississippi Parole Board

BEAM, JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Michael Drankus, an inmate in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, appeals the Sunflower County Circuit Court’s order dismissing his complaint and request for declaratory judgment for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Drankus requested a declaratory judgment from the circuit court that newly amended Mississippi Code Section 47-7-18 creates a liberty interest in parole, and the parole board’s 2015 decision to deny Drankus parole and to “setoff’ his next parole hearing for three years, violated Drankus’s…