Elias Boddie v. Kermit A. Weakley and D. C. Board of Parole

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge.

This District of Columbia prisoner now confined in Lorton Reformatory in Virginia attacks the fairness and adequacy of his mandatory release revocation hearing, pursuant to which he was recommitted to Lorton. The District Court dismissed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, without a hearing, upon findings in accordance with summary statements in an affidavit attached to a return. We think there were factual questions requiring fuller exposition.

Boddie had been released from Lorton on February 24, 1961. The release was mandatory in light of the good time credits…