McKown v. Mitchell

ULRICH, Presiding Judge.

Rodney MeKown appeals the summary judgment entered against him and in favor of Cranston Mitchell, Chairman-Missouri Board of Probation and Parole and James Purkett, Superintendent of the Farmington Correctional Center, on his Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Injunctive Relief. Mr. McKown’s petition claimed that the parole statutes in effect at the time of his offense, guilty plea and sentencing for first degree murder, vested him with a protected liberty interest in being paroled after “satisfying the deterrent and retributive portion of his life sentence.” As…