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Joinder of Georgia Annual Parole Hearing Injunction is Rejected

Loaded on July 15, 2003 published in Prison Legal News July, 2003, page 20
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Injunctions, Parties, Ex Post Facto, Parole. Location: Georgia.
The Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals rejected the attempt of a Georgia life prisoner to use the mechanism of joinder (Fed.RulesCiv.Proc. Rule 20(a)) to gain the benefit of another life prisoner's injunction providing for annual parole consideration hearings.


James Swan, a Georgia life prisoner who was not receiving parole ...

 

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