Legal Opinion
Harrah v. Leverette
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided October 7, 1980No. 14321, 14322, 14338, 14339, 14346, 14341, 14347, 14361, 14354, 14342, 14416, 14431, 14368, 14428, 14369, 14370 and 14405PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Harshbarger, Justice:
Relators, inmates at Huttonsville Correctional Center, seek unconditional release from confinement because they were deprived of their federal and state constitutional rights to due process of law and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment following a riot at the prison on Labor Day weekend, 1978. This Court ordered that a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum issue, and appointed James C. West, Jr., as Commissioner to prepare written findings and recommendations. Counsel was appointed for a majority of the relators.
At 10:30 P.M. on Sunday, September 3, 1978, a riot…
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