Legal Opinion
Charles L. Parrish v. State of Colorado Gale A. Norton, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 5, 1996No. 95-1229PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN C. PORFILIO, Circuit Judge.
Charles L. Parrish appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition which he filed after the District Court of El Paso County, Colorado refused to release him from the custody of the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, Colorado (the Hospital). His petition challenges the constitutionality of the statute upon which his release is governed. Because we believe the state has interpreted its statute in a way that does no violence to the Constitution, and because that is an interpretation by which we are bound, we affirm.
Mr. Parrish seeks to have us…
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