Slocum v. Georgia State Board of Pardons & Paroles

How later courts describe this case

• parole board’s refusal to allow inmate to examine his file does not constitute a constitutional violation
• Georgia statute had no “scheme that requires release ‘unless adverse findings based on [specific] criteria are made’ ” thus there was no protected liberty interest.
• plea of no contest does not preclude a defendant from claiming the statute under which he pleaded is unconstitutional
• previous Georgia parole system did not create liberty interest