Legal Opinion
Severance v. Armstrong
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided December 3, 1980No. 12328PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Appellant was convicted of two counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14 (NRS 201.230) and was sentenced to serve two concurrent ten-year terms in prison. He subsequently applied to the state board of parole commissioners for parole release. The board denied appellant’s application.
Thereafter, appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court contending the board had unlawfully denied his application. The district court denied the petition and this appeal followed.
The specific contentions raised in this appeal are that Nevada’s statutes governing…
3Cases cited4 opinions
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Phillips v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1980
- Rufus Lee Averhart v. Albert Tutsie, Parole Board ChairmanCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1980
- Murphy v. Indiana Parole BoardIndiana Supreme Court · 1979
4Cited by18 opinions
- Moor v. PalmerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2010
- Stockmeier v. State, Board of Parole CommissionersNevada Supreme Court · 2011
- Johnson v. Director, Nevada Department of PrisonsNevada Supreme Court · 1989
- Niergarth v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1989
- State Ex Rel. Board of Parole Commissioners v. MorrowNevada Supreme Court · 2011
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