Legal Opinion
John Wesley Stewart v. Randy Bailey Larry Huffman Cindy S. Staton Other John Does Jerry P. Mitchell
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 29, 1993No. 92-6911PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ERVIN, Chief Judge:
John Wesley Stewart, a Virginia prison inmate, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after prison officials permitted a sheriffs deputy to transport him to West Virginia on the authority of a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum issued by a West Virginia state court. Stewart claimed that the prison officials’ failure to abide by Virginia’s established statutory procedures for transferring prisoners into the custody of other jurisdictions for trial deprived him of due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court granted…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by44 opinions
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