Legal Opinion
Weems v. Cushwa
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 17, 2021No. Civil Action No. 2020-0726Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TONY WEEMS, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 1:20-cv-00726 (CJN) PATRICIA CUSHWA, Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Tony Weems pleaded guilty to various criminal offenses in 1991, was sentenced to a period of incarceration of forty-five years to life, and became eligible for parole in 2019. Compl., ECF No. 1 at 21. At his parole hearing, the U.S. Parole Commission denied Weems’s parole request and scheduled his rehearing for July 2024. See generally Compl. Weems alleges that the…
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- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. St. Francis Xavier Parochial School and St. Francis Xavier ChurchCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1997
- California Department of Corrections v. MoralesSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Board of Pardons v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Michael Ellis, Appellees/cross-Appellants v. District of Columbia, Appellants/cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1996
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