PRATER v. U.S. PAROLE COM'N

No. 84-1121.

764 F.2d 1230 (1985)

William J. PRATER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. U.S. PAROLE COMMISSION, and Thomas Keohane, Warden, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Barrett, Pine Ridge, Ky., for petitioner-appellant.

Carolyn N. Small, Asst. U.S. Atty., Indianapolis, Ind. (Sarah Evans Barker, U.S. Atty.), for respondents-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner argued in district court that the application to his case of a parole statute and related guidelines adopted subsequent to his sentencing is a violation of the ex post facto prohibition of the United States Constitution. The district court found that the new guidelines and statute could not be shown to create any additional disadvantage to the petitioner and denied...

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