Zachary Kelsey v. Tim Garrett

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a state statute which “provides no more than a mere hope a benefit will be obtained…is not protected by due process.”
• holding that an inmate has no constitutional entitlement to release on parole
• finding that an inmate has no constitutional or inherent right to parole or release from a valid sentence
• recognizing general principle that Pennsylvania’s parole statute does not create a liberty interest in the right to be paroled
• noting that “there is no constitutional or inherent right of a convicted person to be conditionally released before the expiration of a valid sentence”
• deciding merits of section 1983 class action challenging parole procedures

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).