· 10/3/1977
Collins v. Maggio
Citations
- 434 U.S. 852
- 98 S. Ct. 166
How courts have described this case
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- neither the Congress nor the commission could retroactively decrease parole eligibility of prisoners sentenced prior to new statutes or administrative guidelines without offending the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution
- “A forbearance to consider these options constituted a failure properly to exercise discretion.”
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