John Brenton Preston v. Arthur Piggman

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

Recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court have recognized that parole cannot be revoked without affording the parolee the procedural fairness guaranteed by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. Morissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471, 92 S.Ct. 2593, 33 L.Ed.2d 484 (1972); Gagnon v. Scarpelli, 411 U.S. 778, 93 S.Ct. 1756, 36 L.Ed. 2d 656 (1973). On this appeal we are called upon to decide whether certain revocation procedures of the Kentucky Parole Board comply with this standard.

In March of 1971 the appellant was paroled from a life sentence…