Williams v. New Mexico Department of Corrections

OPINION

MONTOYA, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of Santa Fe County quashing an alternative writ of mandamus filed by petitioner, an inmate of the New Mexico State Penitentiary. We are here called upon to determine if petitioner was, as a matter of law, entitled to a parole revocation hearing when his parole was revoked subsequent to being granted a parole, but prior to being released from the prison facility.

The record reveals that petitioner was granted a parole “pending an approved parole plan,” on April 15, 1971. However, before any parole plan could be…