Michael Thigpen v. United States Parole Commission

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether the United States Parole Commission may withdraw — and hold in abeyance pending the outcome of related state criminal charges — a parole violator warrant where that warrant was previously executed and resulted in a parole revocation hearing whose result was subsequently nullified due to the alleged violator’s constitutional challenge to that hearing. We agree with the district court that, in such circumstances, the Parole Commission has the authority to withdraw the originally executed warrant and hold it in…