State Ex Rel. Jones v. Division Administrator, State, Division of Hearings & Appeals

The State of Wisconsin appeals from an order vacating the decision of the Division of Hearings and Appeals to revoke Leonard Jones's parole. The trial court concluded that because the parole revocation hearing did not begin within fifty days of Jones's detention in the county jail as required *671by § 302.335(2), STATS.,1 his parole could not be revoked. We hold that the failure to begin the hearing within fifty days does not deprive the Division of Hearings and Appeals of the authority to hear the matter of Jones's parole revocation and that Jones's right to due process was not violated by the…