Frank Haygood v. Evelle J. Younger, and Harold Cranke and Benjamin Seymour

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that deliberately indifferent detention of a person beyond the term permissible by law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment proscribed under the Eighth Amendment
• holding that state must provide inmate who alleges that his sentence was miscalculated with “meaningful hearing”
• “[detention beyond the termination of a sentence could constitute cruel and unusual punishment if it is the result of ‘deliberate indifference’ to the prisoner’s liberty interest”
• judgment against prison officials was proper because “after being put on notice, [the prison officials] simply refused to investigate a computational error.”
• confinement beyond the end of a prisoner’s 15 sentence requires deliberate indifferent by state actors
• “Process which precedes a loss of liberty obviously prevents a constitutional violation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).