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· 1/7/1896

State ex rel. Festor v. Staed

Citations

  • 64 Mo. App. 453
  • 1896 Mo. App. LEXIS 311

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding inmates have a protected liberty interest in earned sentencing credits and are entitled to judicial review of a decision resulting in the removal of those credits
  • stating the ALC lacks authority to consider a facial challenge to the constitutionality of a SCDC policy
  • stating the ALC lacks authority to consider a facial challenge to the constitutionality of a SCDC policy
  • \[T]he ALC may summarily dismiss an inmate appeal that involves only the loss of the opportunity to earn sentence-related credits.\
  • \[A]n inmate's loss of the opportunity to earn sentence-related credits does not implicate a state- created liberty interest.\
  • \The requirements of procedural due process apply only to the deprivation of interests encompassed by the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty and property.\ (quoting Al- Shabazz, 338 S.C. at 369, 527 S.E.2d at 750)

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Judges: Bond, Rombauer

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