Reynolds v. Mccall

701 F.2d 810 Brook Randolph REYNOLDS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Cecil McCALL, Chairman, United States Parole Commission; United States Bureau of Prisons; Timothy Keohane, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island, Respondents-Appellees. No. 82-5112. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Sept. 10, 1982. Decided March 16, 1983. Janet Sherman, Nasatir, Sherman & Hirsch, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner-appellant. Marcy Norton, Michael W. Emmick, Asst. U.S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for respondents-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before ELY and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and CARROLL, District Judge. * CHOY, Circuit Judge: 1 Brook Randolph Reynolds, a federal prisoner, appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2241 . He contends that: (1) the Regional Parole Commissioner denied him due process by failing to give him timely notice that the Regional Commissioner had referred the decision on his presumptive parole date to the National Parole Commissioners; (2) the National Parole Commissioners abused their discretion by extending his…