Legal Opinion
Morrissey v. Brewer
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 29, 1972No. 71-5103PublishedCited by 10,713 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that a State afford an individual some opportunity to be heard prior to revoking his parole.
Petitioner Morrissey was convicted of false drawing or uttering of checks in 1967 pursuant to his guilty plea, and was sentenced to not more than seven years’ confinement. He was paroled from the Iowa State Penitentiary in June 1968. Seven months later, at the direction of his parole officer, he was arrested in his home town as a parole violator and incarcerated in the county jail. One…
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