Morrissey v. Brewer
- Decided
- June 29, 1972
- Docket
- 71-5103
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 10,835 timesQuestioned (not yet verified)Possible negative treatment: questioned (not yet verified) · Craft v. Attorney General of United States
What later courts said
- holding that a criminal defendant has certain due process rights when his or her partial liberty granted through the parole board is revoked — People v. Lockridge (2015)
- holding that parolee has a post-conviction liberty interest which “includes many of the core values of unqualified liberty” — Frank McKithen v. Richard Brown, District Attorney, County of Queens, New York (2007)
- holding that parolee has an "indeterminate" liberty interest which "includes many of the core values of unqualified liberty" — James Harvey v. Robert F. Horan, Jr., Commonwealth's Attorney, County of Fairfax, Jennifer Thompson Karen R. Pomer Jeri Elster, Amici Curiae (2002)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Mr. Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that a State afford an individual some opportunity to be heard prior to revoking his parole.
Petitioner Morrissey was convicted of false drawing or uttering of checks in 1967 pursuant to his guilty plea, and was sentenced to not more than seven years’ confinement. He was paroled from the Iowa State Penitentiary in June 1968. Seven months later, at the direction of his parole officer, he was arrested in his home town as a parole violator and incarcerated in the county jail. One week later, after review of the parole officer’s written report, the Iowa Board of Parole revoked Mor- [*473] rissey’s parole, and he was returned to the penitentiary located about 100 miles from his home. Petitioner asserts he received no hearing prior to revocation of his parole.
Cite this
Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972)Read the full opinion
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