United States v. Martin David Stephenson

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• recognizing that parole may be revoked even if all charges from the same conduct are dismissed prior to trial, the parolee is later acquitted, or the criminal conviction is overturned
• noting that “pushing” short of actual fighting did not necessarily constitute assault and that drinking more than six beers at home on the weekend did not necessarily constitute excessive alcohol consumption
• noting that a district court may consider hearsay evidence in a revocation proceeding
• finding inherent liberty interest in continued placement in supervised release program that allowed convicts to live in society
• right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses extinguished if the hearing officer specifically finds good cause for not allowing confrontation
• a judge has more flexibility conducting a revocation hearing than he does in a criminal trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).