Ernest M. Serio v. Members of Louisiana State Board of Pardons, Howard Marsellus, Jr.

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• recognizing that some challenges to a single hearing do not entitle the prisoner to an accelerated release
• holding that claims that impact the constitutionality of a plaintiff’s state conviction or sentence must be initially pursued through state habeas proceedings
• holding that claim challenging denial of parole requires exhaustion of state remedies
• observing that when a habeas petition “combines claims that should be asserted in habeas with claims that properly may be pursued” as a civils rights action, if “the claims can be separated, federal courts should do so”
• distinguishing between claims that merely enhance eligibility for accelerated release, which sound in civil rights, and those that create entitlement to such relief, which sound in habeas
• “In instances in which a petition combines claims that should be asserted in 4 See http://kool.corrections.ky.gov/KOOL/Details/82160 (accessed August 13, 2025

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