Legal Opinion
White v. Hyman
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 29, 1994No. 93-SP-141PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
Daniel White, a prisoner at a facility administered by the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, filed a petition in the Superior Court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that the District of Columbia Board of Parole had unlawfully denied him timely consideration for parole. A Superior Court judge denied the petition without a hearing and dismissed the writ. Because the Board’s “Policy Guideline,” which White invokes, was adopted after the decision in his ease; because White’s contention that the Guideline should be applied retroactively was not made to…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Landgraf v. USI Film ProductsSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Kentucky Department of Corrections v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Olim v. WakinekonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Board of Pardons v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Johnson v. RodriguezCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1997
- Michael Ellis, Appellees/cross-Appellants v. District of Columbia, Appellants/cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1996
- Sellmon v. ReillyDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2008
- McRae v. HymanDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1995
- Davis v. HendersonDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1995
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