Brandt v. State

LANSING, Judge.

This is an appeal from the magistrate’s dismissal of a petition for writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner-appellant Alan Brandt contends that he was deprived of his tentative parole release date without due process of law by the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole (Commission). Because we find that Brandt had no liberty interest in an erroneously granted parole eligibility date, we affirm the dismissal of his petition.

Brandt was convicted in 1984 for seven different offenses in four separate criminal cases. For these crimes he received three concurrent sentences of twelve years,…