Legal Opinion
Debra Jenner v. Kay Nikolas
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 8, 2016No. 15-2900PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Debra Jenner filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Appellees, current and former members of the South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles (the Board). Appellees filed a motion to dismiss the action for failure to state a claim, which the district court 1 granted. Jenner appeals; we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Jenner was convicted of second-degree murder in 1988 for the death of her three-year-old daughter Abby. Jenner was initially sentenced to life in prison without parole. In 2002, South Dakota Governor William Janklow commuted Jenner’s sentence to a term of…
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