Turner v. Thompson

Plaintiff, an inmate at the Oregon State Penitentiary, seeks review of the trial court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that the court erred in various respects. For the following reasons, we affirm.

In this action, plaintiff challenged the validity of a Board of Parole order deferring his release date from May 1995 to May 1997 on the basis of a psychological evaluation. After his petition was filed, plaintiff refused to undergo a psychological evaluation for use at the next scheduled parole hearing and, consequently, his release was again deferred based on that…