Vaughan v. Murray

According to the provisions of our Rule 5:42, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia certified to this Court on June 2, 1993 two questions of Virginia law relating to a convict’s eligibility for parole. Simply stated, the issue presented by the certified questions is whether a Virginia inmate must be convicted of a felony and committed to a Virginia correctional facility on three separate occasions before being rendered ineligible for parole.

This action, pending in the certifying court, was brought by plaintiff Marvin Wendell Vaughan naming as defendants the…