Jackson v. Jamrog.

• Position: HABEAS CORPUS - Brief Article

U.S. Appeals Court

PAROLE

Jackson v. Jamrog, 411 F.3d 615 (6th Cir. 2005). A state prisoner filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the constitutionality of a Michigan statute that permits prosecutors and crime victims to appeal decisions to grant parole, but which provides no equivalent right of appeal to state prisoners who are denied parole. The district court denied the petition and the prisoner appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that differentiating between prisoners and non-prisoners...