Ellard v. Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he Alabama parole statute frames the Parole Board’s authority in discretionary terms, and thus does not create for Alabama prisoners a protected liberty interest in the expectation of parole.”
• “[T]he Alabama parole statute frames the Parole Board’s authority in discretionary terms, and thus does not create for Alabama prisoners a protected liberty interest in the expectation of parole.”
• “once a state has created the right ... and has established standards for its revocation, the prisoner’s interest has real substance and falls within the protections of the [Fourteenth [Ajmendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).