Legal Opinion
Adams v. Meloy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 22, 2008No. 07-3453PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Billie R. Adams is an Indiana prisoner who has been serving a life sentence since 1972 for first-degree murder of a police officer. He filed a complaint against the Chairman of the Indiana Parole Board, currently Christopher Meloy, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging his denial of parole. The district court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim. We affirm.
According to Adams’s complaint, he filed five clemency petitions before 1992, all of which were denied. That year marked the completion of the first 20 years of his *533sentence, and…
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