Case Name: JOHN W. QUINN, Petitioner, v. BOARD OF PAROLE AND POST-PRISON SUPERVISION, Respondent
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 2009-06-24
Citations: 229 Or. App. 234
Docket Number: A139475
Parties: JOHN W. QUINN, Petitioner, v. BOARD OF PAROLE AND POST-PRISON SUPERVISION, Respondent.
Judges: Before Haselton, Presiding Judge, and Armstrong, Judge, and Rosenblum, Judge.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 229
Pages: 234–235

Head Matter:
Submitted May 1,
OAR 255-035-0030 held valid June 24, 2009
JOHN W. QUINN, Petitioner, v. BOARD OF PAROLE AND POST-PRISON SUPERVISION, Respondent.
Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision
A139475
210 P3d 944
John W. Quinn filed the brief pro se.
John R. Kroger, Attorney General, Erika L. Hadlock, Acting Solicitor General, and Jeremy C. Rice, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
Before Haselton, Presiding Judge, and Armstrong, Judge, and Rosenblum, Judge.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
In this judicial review proceeding under ORS 183.400, petitioner challenges the validity of OAR 255-035-0030. That rule provides that the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision may, under specified circumstances, deny an offender parole rather than set a parole release date. Petitioner argues that the rule violates state and federal constitutional provisions because it allows the board to deny parole to a person convicted of murder, but—due to the operation of other statutes—not to a person convicted of aggravated murder. In petitioner's view, the rule thus subjects murder offenders to disproportionate punishment and denies them the same rights, privileges, and procedural protections granted to aggravated murder offenders in violation of Article I, sections 16 and 20, of the Oregon Constitution and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. We conclude that petitioner's arguments lack merit; any discussion of them would be of no benefit to the bench, the bar, or the public.
OAR 255-035-0030 held valid.