Procedural Due Process Safeguards

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In a landmark Supreme Court case involving procedural due process safeguards, the court held that certain requirements must be met when an individual parole is revoked. Based on this case, the court found that due process requirements must be invoked in three stages; the defendant’s deferred sentence, completion of certain terms of probations and whether the defendant successful completes the probation terms or not (Oram & Gleckker, 2006). Since the Supreme Court hasn’t addressed the issue of due process clause under a drug treatment court, a few states have addressed the issue using the landmark Morrissey Supreme Court case to apply whether due process requirements is applicable to proceedings (Oram & Gleckker, 2006). Applying due process