HOYT WEAVER, PETITIONER,

v.

ROBERT GRAHAM, GOVERNOR, RESPONDENT

Citator

Cited By (18 total)

• Waldrup v. Dugger, 562 So. 2d 687 (Fla. 1990)
  …e statute ex post facto because it actually disadvantages Waldrup within the meaning of the relevant case law. Indeed, the argument advanced by the state sounds very much like the discredited analysis employed by this Court in Harris v. Wainwright, 376 So. 2d 855 (Fla.1979). In Harris, we had denied relief after an inmate was subjected to a retroactive gain-time statute that had reduced the maximum number of gain-time days that could be awarded to him. We held that gain time allowance is an act of grace rat…
• State v. Williams, 397 So. 2d 663 (Fla. 1981)
  …method of prisoner gain-time computation and which was enacted subsequent to the crime for which the prisoner was incarcerated, affected him detrimentally and was therefore an ex post facto law. This Court summarily denied relief, Weaver v. Graham, 376 So. 2d 855 (Fla.1979), on the basis of Harris v. Wainwright, 376 So. 2d 855 (Fla.1979), a decision issued on the same day. In Harris, the Court upheld the constitutional validity of the newly enacted gain-time statute, as applied to prisoners incarcerated for…

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• Gwong v. Singletary, 683 So. 2d 109 (Fla. 1996)
  …We deny rehearing. In our 1979 decision in Harris v. Wainwright, 376 So. 2d 855 (Fla.1979), we expressly adopted the view asserted by the State of Florida and rejected a prisoner’s claim that the ex post facto clause prohibited the State from retroactively applying a more restrictive gain-time statute even though the statute ha…

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Authorities Cited

• Hoyt Weaver v. Graham, 376 So. 2d 855 (Fla. 1979)