Legal Opinion
Williams v. Ward
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 26, 1977No. 457, Docket 76-2105PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York raises a question of the extent to which the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment confers upon a prison inmate eligible for parole consideration the right to inspect his institutional files, where those may be consulted by the parole board in deciding on his parole. Related questions already have been faced, in varying form and with varying result, by two previous panels of this court. In the particular circumstances of this case, we find that disclosure of the contents of…
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