Legal Opinion
Wilden v. Fields
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided March 2, 1981No. 79-C-347PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
CRABB, Chief Judge.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which petitioner, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wisconsin, challenges the validity of the guidelines under which the United States Parole Commission determines the length of custody of inmates sentenced to federal institutions. The importance of this issue and the frequency with which it is raised by federal prisoners warrant extensive analysis of the source of the parole commission’s authority to promulgate and observe standardized guidelines in the parole decision process.
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2Cases cited21 opinions
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- United States Parole Commission v. GeraghtySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- United States v. AddonizioSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- John J. Rodriguez v. United States Parole Commission and Metropolitan Correctional Center, Robert Elsea, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
- Geraghty v. United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by16 opinions
- United States v. Michael James O'driscoll, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Amicus CuriaeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1985
- Geraghty v. United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1983
- Baker v. McCallDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1981
- Joost v. United States Parole CommissionDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 1982
- Chris James Anderson v. United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
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