Price v. Board of Parole

The issue in this case is whether the Court of Appeals has authority to reverse or remand, for a claimed “abuse of discretion,” a final order of the Board of Parole (Board) setting a prisoner’s parole date. We hold that the relevant statutes do not give the court that authority.

In May 1984 the petitioner and his son agreed to murder the petitioner’s wife and solicited one Cothran to carry out the crime by putting arsenic in the coffee maker at the wife’s place of employment. Cothran told the police, who intervened and arrested the petitioner.

The petitioner was convicted of solicitation and…