Reeves v. Turner

CALLISTER, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff appeals from an order of the district court, wherein his petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied. Plaintiff challenges the legality of his detention on the ground that the Board of Pardons, in revoking his parole, considered' evidence that was the “fruit” of an unlawful search and seizure.

Plaintiff was originally convicted of burglary in the second degree .in March 1963, and was sentenced to the Utah State Prison; He was paroled in May 1965 and was subsequently convicted of grand larceny, and his parole was revoked in March 1967. He was granted a…