Miguel Coronado, Jr. v. United States Board of Parole

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

The district court below dismissed appellant’s pro se attack upon the conditions attached to his mandatory release under 18 U.S.C. §§ 4163 and 4164, styled as a request for a declaratory judgment against the Board of Parole, for lack of jurisdiction over the named defendant. We find that the court below too closely bound itself to the legally untutored terms of the pro se pleadings; specifically, it should have viewed appellant's claim as a habeas corpus petition and exercised jurisdiction on that basis. Indeed, the same district court rejected on the merits an almost…