Gettings v. Missouri Department of Corrections

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Mr. Gettings filed a Petition for Certiorari in the circuit court requesting it to grant review of the August 1996 decision of the Board of Probation and Parole denying Mm parole and setting Ms next parole hearing for August 1998. The court dismissed Ms Petition. Mr. Gettings appeals, alleging that he *8had a constitutional right to parole, that the Board violated its own guidelines by denying him parole, and that the circuit court should have ordered the Board to grant him parole. Assuming without deciding that the issues are properly raised by Mr. Gettings’ Petition,…