Legal Opinion
John Houston Sellars v. Raymond K. Procunier
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 9, 1981No. 78-1120PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALARCON, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner John Houston Sellars (“Sellars”) is an inmate of the California Mens Colony at San Luis Obispo. Respondent Procunier was chairman of the California Adult Authority.1 Petitioner filed this action in district court, alleging that Procunier and other California Adult Authority officials had conspired to deprive him of rights under the first, fifth, sixth, eighth and fourteenth amendments by giving him a parole release date that requires him to serve an excessively long prison sentence. The district court granted summáry judgment for the defendants on the ground…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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- Wood v. StricklandSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by175 opinions
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- Russell L. O'Bremski v. Manfred Maass, Superintendent, Oregon State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
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