Legal Opinion
Crump v. Lafler
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 20, 2011No. 09-1073PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLELAND, D.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which GIBBONS, J., joined. COLE, J. (pp. 405-06), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
CLELAND, District Judge.
Petitioner-Appellant Lucius Crump asks us to find that the Michigan law governing parole has created a liberty interest cognizable under the Fourteenth Amendment and enforceable in a federal court through a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Although Michigan may categorize a parole-eligible prisoner as having a “high probability” of release, we find that an actual release determination remains…
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