holding that prisoner has a constitutional right to assistance of counsel at a recommitment hearing before the Parole Board
How later courts described this case
- holding that prisoner has a constitutional right to assistance of counsel at a recommitment hearing before the Parole Board
- constitutional right to counsel at recommitment hearing
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell:
I dissent to that part of the Court’s Opinion which gives a convicted criminal a Constitutional right to counsel (usually at the expense of the taxpayers) at a parole hearing, after he has allegedly broken his parole.