George Scales v. Mississippi State Parole Board

Petitioner, presently incarcerated on two life sentences for two counts of murder, filed a pro se complaint attacking the denial of parole and asserting that he is being denied equal protection and due process of law under the fourteenth amendment in that the Mississippi Parole Statute is unconstitutional. The district court dismissed on the dual bases that the statute is not unconstitutional and that petitioner’s complaint directed to his own parole determination sounds in habeas corpus and requires exhaustion of state remedies. We affirm.

After the district court affirmed the magistrate’s…