RICHARDSON v. PENNSYLVANIA BD. OF PROBATION

No. 04-2026.

423 F.3d 282 (2005)

Wilbur RICHARDSON Appellant v. PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE; Attorney General of Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

September 8, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Damien Schorr (Argued), Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellant.

Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General, John G. Knorr, III (Argued), Chief Deputy Attorney General, Sarah C. Yerger, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellees.

Before ALITO, BECKER, and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

Wilbur Richardson filed a petition for habeas corpus claiming that the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole ("the Parole Board") has continually denied him parole in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution. Richardson asserts that, in rejecting his parole application, the Parole Board retroactively applied 1996 amendments to the Pennsylvania Probation and Parole Act, Pa. Stat...

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