Legal Opinion
Walter Leonard, Jr. v. Mississippi State Probation and Parole Board
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1975No. 74--2354PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
In this § 1983 case, brought as a class action by Walter Leonard, Jr., an inmate of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, the district court enjoined the Mississippi State Probation and Parole Board, the Mississippi State Penitentiary Board, and the Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary from relying on prison disciplinary records that were the product of procedures held to be constitutionally infirm in Gates v. Collier, 5 Cir. 1974, 501 F.2d 1291. The defendants had utilized these pre- Gates records for determining prisoner classifications, eligibility for…
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