Chris James Anderson v. United States Parole Commission

NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

Chris J. Anderson is a federal prisoner confined in the federal penitentiary at Lom-poc, California. On July 5, 1984, he filed a pro se habeas petition in district court, claiming that the manner in which the Parole Commission set his parole release date considerably in excess of its presumptive guidelines violated his due process rights. Without passing on Anderson’s constitutional arguments, we hold that the Parole Commission violated the Parole Commission and Reorganization Act (“the Act”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 4201-4208 (1982), when it relied on information contained in…