Ganz v. Bensinger

STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff asks us to decide that indigent inmates of the Illinois State Penitentiary have a constitutional right to appointed counsel at parole release hearings. He relies on the Sixth Amendment and on the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Prescinding the policy arguments which the General Assembly or *89the Governor of Illinois may find persuasive, we hold, in agreement with other federal courts,1 that this procedural right is not guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

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In every stage of a criminal proceeding at which his…