Brown v. Georgia Board of Pardons & Paroles

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• holding that statute began to run when Georgia Parole Board informed plaintiff of date of his parole reconsideration, which was outside the three-year maximum mandated by policy in place at the time he committed his crime
• holding that the limitations period begins to run “from the date the facts which would support a cause of action are apparent or should be apparent to a person with a reasonably prudent regard for his rights”
• noting that the statute of limitations runs from the date “the facts which would support a cause of action are apparent or should be apparent to a person with a reasonably prudent regard for his rights.”
• holding the statute of limitations on petitioner’s § 1983 claim began to run in 1995, when he was informed he would not be considered for parole until 2000, which was outside the mandated maximum three-year review period
• no con- tinuing violation where a prisoner challenged the application of a prior-enacted policy to his parole proceedings
• “[Sjuccessive denials of parole do not involve separate factual predicates and therefore do not warrant separate statute-of-limitations calculations.”

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