Harris v. Board of Parole

Petitioner, an inmate in the Oregon State Penitentiary, filed a petition with the Court of Appeals for review of an order by the Board of Parole setting the initial date of his release on parole for March 1983, following 96 months of imprisonment. Respondent moved to dismiss the petition on the ground that the Court of Appeals had no jurisdiction. The court allowed that motion upon the ground that ORS 144.335(1), as previously construed by it in Sterling v. Board of Parole, 16 Or App 481, 519 P2d 1047, rev den, (1974), granted that court jurisdiction "only to review orders terminating or…