Carrion v. State

STRUCKMEYER, Vice Chief Justice.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus asserting that he was improperly imprisoned as a parole violator without having been accorded the parole revocation hearings required by Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471, 92 S.Ct. 2593, 33 L.Ed.2d 484 (1972). For the reasons stated, we hold that he is not entitled to the issuance of the writ.

Petitioner was convicted of a felony in 1973 and sentenced to five to ten years at the Arizona State Prison at Florence, Arizona. On December 2, 1974, he was released on parole. On November 17, 1975, petitioner entered pleas of…