Legal Opinion
Wright v. Trammell
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided May 10, 1985No. Civ. A. No. 3:85-0580Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
NEESE, Senior District Judge,
Sitting by Designation and Assignment.
The petitioner Mr. Norman Quincy Wright, Jr., a prisoner of the state of Tennessee, seeks the federal writ of habeas corpus, claiming constitutional-deficiencies in proceedings before Tennessee’s board of pardons and paroles allegedly resulting in the revocation of his parole. See Gagnon v. Scarpelli, 411 U.S. 778, 791, 93 S.Ct. 1756, 1764, 36 L.Ed.2d 656 (1973) (state-prisoner entitled to writ of habeas corpus where state parole or probation revocation-proceedings do not pass…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Gagnon v. ScarpelliSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Peyton v. RoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Duckworth v. SerranoSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Ussery v. AveryTennessee Supreme Court · 1968
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