Shirley v. Chestnut

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Oklahoma’s discretionary parole scheme creates no liberty interest
• holding inmate had no due process interest in parole where statute placed no limitations on Parole Board’s decision to recommend parole or governor’s decision to grant or deny parole
• explaining that parole in Oklahoma is discretionary
• “In the absence of such liberty interest [in parole], the specific due process procedures requested by the appellants are not applicable.”

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