Court Opinion

ID: 9849973
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:50:21.364094+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:29.901120
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Haden, Justice,
concurring:
I respectfully concur in the excellent opinion of Chief Justice Caplan. I also believe the petitioners’ right to be amply protected by the West Virginia Constitution.
The State, by its statutory law, having provided for the right of a parolee in a revocation proceeding to employ counsel, cannot withhold that same right to an indigent parolee, who is a member of the same class and separated from others solely on the basis of impecunious circumstances. West Virginia Constitution, Article III, § 17. Accord, Linger v. Jennings, 143 W.Va. 57, 99 S.E.2d 740 (1957); West Virginia Constitution, Article III, § 1. Accord, State v. Goodwill, 33 W.Va. 179, 10 S.E. 285 (1889); State v. Peel Splint Coal Company, 36 W.Va. 802, 15 S.E. 1000 (1892).