Phillips v. Williams

OPAL A, Justice:

This case is here on remand from the United States Supreme Court for reconsideration of Phillips v. Williams1 in light of federal-law criteria pronounced in Green-holtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal Complex2 In Phillips this court held that minimum standards of federal due process require the Pardon and Parole Board [Board] to give written reasons to a prisoner whose name is removed from a parole consideration docket. The issue on remand is whether parole release provisions of the Oklahoma law, considered as a totality — constitutional, statutory, decisional and rule-prescribed…