Court Opinion

ID: 9460228
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:45:16.407447+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:32.212520
License: Public Domain

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
At the risk of repeating what is clear, it is my understanding that the opinion is limited to the situation before us, namely transfers to out-of-state prisons. I do not believe that a transfer from one to another institution within the jurisdiction of commitment would carry with it any of the rights described in the court’s opinion. Transfer to a foreign jurisdiction has traditionally been regarded as altogether different: to be cast outside the jurisdiction within which one was sentenced is often to be separated from rights, privileges and standards otherwise available — to become, to some degree, a “man without a country”. In such event, but not otherwise, there may be said to be “grievous harm” requiring constitutional protection.