Opinion ID: 296671
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: right to counsel at revocation hearing

Text: 8 Petitioner complains of his lack of appointed counsel at the requested local revocation hearing and at the hearing which was actually held on August 3, 1970. However, in neither case was it necessary that he be furnished court appointed counsel. 9 The general rule is well established that due process does not require appointment of counsel at parole revocation hearings for indigent federal parolees. 5 In Hyser v. Reed, 115 U.S. App.D.C. 254, 318 F.2d 225, 238 (En Banc), cert. denied sub nom. Jamison v. Chappell, 375 U.S. 957, 84 S.Ct. 447, 11 L.Ed.2d 316 (1963), Judge (now Chief Justice) Burger said: 10 We hold due process does not require that indigent parolees be provided with appointed counsel when they appear before the Parole Board in revocation proceedings. 11 The Fourth Circuit adopted this rule in a slightly modified form in Jones v. Rivers, 338 F.2d 862, 874 (4th Cir. 1964) where it said: 12 So long as that judgment is fairly and honestly exercised, a judgment which is subject to judicial review, we think there is no place for re- quired counsel representation in the matter of parole revocation. 13 See also Boddie v. Weakley, 356 F.2d 242, 243 (4th Cir. 1966). 14 For the reasons set forth above, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.