Legal Opinion
Paul Michael Sheary v. United States Parole Commission
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 28, 1987No. 87-1068PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
In October 1982 appellant Sheary was convicted by a jury of conspiring to possess and possessing 17,000 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to a total of six years imprisonment, to be followed by a special parole term of fifteen years. After appealing his conviction without success, he entered prison. The Parole Commission has now denied his application for parole, rating his offense behavior as Category Six severity and concluding that he should serve between 40 and 52 months of his sentence before being released. He then filed a petition for…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Dobbert v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Conklin Wallace v. Robert ChristensenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Lyman T. Shepard v. Larry Taylor, Warden, Metropolitan Correctional Center, and Maurice Sigler, Chairman, United States Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- Douglas Charles Dufresne v. Benjamin Baer, Chairman, U.S. Parole CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by19 opinions
- United States v. Stuart Jeffrey PaskowCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1993
- Bailey v. GardebringCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1991
- Andrew James Devine v. New Mexico Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1989
- Davis v. HendersonDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1995
- United States v. Gerald Vontsteen, A/K/A Skip VontsteenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
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