WALLACE

v.

LOCKHART, DIRECTOR OF ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Hoyt, 879 F.2d 505 (9th Cir. 1989)
  …ion became effective on November 1, 1987. Hoyt was sentenced in July, 1987. A legislature may prospectively reduce the penalty for a crime without affecting those previously sentenced. See Frazier v. Manson, 703 F. 2d 30, 36 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 934, 104 S.Ct. 339, 78 L.Ed.2d 308 (1983). Because he was sentenced prior to the effective date of § 3553(e), its purported unconstitutionality has not caused him an “actual injury re-dressable by the court.” See Simon v. Eastern Ky. Welfare Rights Org.…
• Carmine Romano v. Luther, 816 F.2d 832 (2d Cir. 1987)
  …are rationally related to legitimate state purposes. McGinnis v. Royster, 410 U.S. 263, 270, 93 S.Ct. 1055, 1059, 35 L.Ed.2d 282 (1973) (good-time credits affecting parole eligibility); Frazier v. Manson, 703 F. 2d 30, 33-34 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 934, 104 S.Ct. 339, 78 L.Ed.2d 308 (1983) (good-time credits affecting maximum term of sentence). The evident purpose of subsection 235(b)(3) is to ensure that the Parole Commission will have set a parole date for every prisoner still in prison the da…
• Dudley v. Dittmer, 795 F.2d 669 (8th Cir. 1986)
  …s the law of the circuit and we áre compelled to follow it. United States v. Norton, 780 F. 2d 21, 23 (8th Cir.1985); United States v. Lewellyn, 723 F. 2d 615, 616 (8th Cir.1983); United States v. Howard, 706 F. 2d 267, 269 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 934, 104 S.Ct. 341, 78 L.Ed.2d 309 (1983). Thus, while we believe that the opinion in Horn draws some close distinctions, and that we might, given a fresh slate, reach a different conclusion as to submissibility, the stare decisis rule of this circuit r…