# Grimm v. Arizona Board of Pardons & Paroles

> Arizona Supreme Court · April 11, 1977 · 115 Ariz. 260

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9793832

## Case

- **Full name:** Edna GRIMM and John Grimm, Wife and Husband, the Surviving Natural Parents of John Grimm, Deceased, and Robert and Pat Bennett, Husband and Wife, Appellants, v. the ARIZONA BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES, Walter Jacobs, Walter Michaels and Donald Simmons, Members of the Arizona Board of Pardons and Paroles, Appellees
- **Court:** Arizona Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 11, 1977
- **Citations:** 115 Ariz. 260; 564 P.2d 1227; 5 A.L.R. 4th 757; 1977 Ariz. LEXIS 308
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Struckmeyer
- **Judges:** Gordon, Hays, Struckmeyer, Cameron, Holohan
- **Cited by:** 103 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Disagreed with by Donahoo v. State, 479 So. 2d 1188 (1985).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 1
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9793832

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that members of the Arizona Board of Pardons and Paroles were liable “only for the grossly negligent or reckless release of a highly dangerous prisoner” but enjoyed “freedom from suit for reasonable decisions”

## Opinion text

STRUCKMEYER, V. C. J.,
concurring.
I concur in the dissent of Justice Hays.

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