State Ex Rel. Caughey v. Middle

Appellant, an inmate of the Oregon State Penitentiary, seeks review of the trial court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to order defendant, the chairperson of the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision, to rescind a July 24,1996, order imposing a sanction for a 1986 parole violation and establishing a parole consideration date of March 2, 2008. Appellant makes numerous arguments pro se about why he believes the Board could not impose the parole violation sanction that it did. We write to address appellant’s argument that the Board erroneously failed to follow…