SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, state correctional officials, ask us to reverse an order of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granting habeas corpus relief to petitioner-appellee, Douglas D. Chappee. In our view, the recent decision in Taylor v. Illinois, ___ U.S. ___, 108 S.Ct. 646, 98 L.Ed.2d 798 (1988) — a case decided by the Supreme Court after we heard oral argument in this matter — constrains us to oblige...
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