Lay v. Louisiana Parole Board

J¿WHIPPLE, J.

Richard Lay, an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, filed suit against the Louisiana Parole Board and the State of Louisiana challenging the revocation of his probation in 1995 and 1997. He filed myriad pleadings, including a supplemental pleading challenging a 1988 probation revocation. The trial court, upon the commissioner’s recommendation, declined to address the allegations regarding the 1988 revocation because there was a previously filed and pending suit in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court directed to this same issue. In accordance with the…