No. 21-5810

Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-09-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2021-12-03
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the administrator of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when they forfeited the petitioner's earned good conduct time upon revocation of parole

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

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Docket Entries

2021-12-06
Petition DENIED.
2021-11-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/3/2021.
2021-09-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 29, 2021)

Attorneys

Rhodes
Mandell Rhodes Jr. — Petitioner