JONES v. HOBBS

No. 10-1754.

604 F.3d 580 (2010)

Jack Harold JONES, Jr., Plaintiff, Don William Davis, Intervenor plaintiff-Appellee Alvin Bernal Jackson, Intervenor plaintiff Stacey Eugene Johnson, Intervenor plaintiff-Appellee Kenneth Dewayne Williams; Jason Farrell McGehee; Bruce Earl Ward, Intervenor plaintiffs v. Ray HOBBS, in his official capacity as Acting Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 9, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah R. Sallings, Little Rock, AR, for appellee Davis.

Jeffrey M. Rosenzweig, Little Rock, AR, for appellee Johnson.

C. Joseph Cordi, Jr., Shawn J. Johnson, Asst. Atty. General, Little Rock, AR, for appellant Ray Hobbs, Acting Director of the Arkansas Dept. of Correction.

Before MELLOY, GRUENDER and BENTON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

On February 3, 2010, Arkansas death row inmate Jack Harold Jones, Jr., filed a motion to intervene in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action filed by Marcel Williams, another death row inmate, challenging the constitutionality of the Arkansas Method of Execution Act ("MEA"). Williams claimed, among other things, that the MEA violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...

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