Boddie v. New York State Div. of Parole.

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U.S. District Court

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Boddie v. New York State Div. of Parole, 288 F.Supp.2d 431 (S.D.N.Y. 2003). A state prisoner petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus after he was denied parole. The district court denied the petition. The court held that a parole board's actions in conducting a parole hearing via teleconferencing did not violate the prisoner's equal protection rights. The court found that the parole board's actions were neither irrational nor arbitrary, where the teleconferencing technology...