Wheat v. Missouri Board of Probation & Parole

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Charles D. Wheat is currently serving prison terms imposed for crimes committed in 1976. The parole statute in effect at the time the crimes were committed made parole mandatory if the statutory prerequisites to parole were satisfied. The legislature later amended the statute, giving the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole discretion whether to grant parole once the preconditions to parole are met. Applying the amended statute, the Board denied Mr. Wheat parole in 1994. The trial court denied Mr. Wheat’s petition for an Alternative Writ of Mandamus compelling the…