BOWRING v. GODWIN

No. 75-2084.

551 F.2d 44 (1977)

Larry Grant BOWRING, Appellant, v. Mills E. GODWIN, Individually and as Governor, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Mark Sandler, Baltimore, Md. (Richard C. Burch and William Kiniry, Jr., Third Year Law Students on brief), for appellant.

Linwood T. Wells, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, CRAVEN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

In pro se pleadings, petitioner, incarcerated under state law, attacked the validity of the denial of his application for parole. Inter alia, he sought psychiatric and psychological treatment to render him eligible for parole. The district court treated the action as one under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and summarily dismissed it on the ground that petitioner had alleged no denial of any constitutional right. We reverse.

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