Banks v. State

McDEVITT, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Jerry Banks (Banks), filed an application for writ of habeas corpus with the magistrate division of the district court, claiming that his due process rights were violated by the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole (Commission). Banks claims that the Commission had no justification for continuing Banks’s incarceration and that Banks’s due process rights were violated.

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BACKGROUND AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

Banks is an inmate at the Idaho Correctional Institute in Orofino, Idaho. On September 7, 1990, Banks entered an Alford guilty plea and was sentenced to an…