Fults v. Missouri Board of Probation & Parole

Fults is a prisoner serving sentences totaling forty years for convictions arising from sexual assaults of his fifteen-year old daughter. State v. Fults, 719 S.W.2d 46, 47 (Mo.App.1986).

In this petition for declaratory judgment, Fults sought a determination of whether the Board of Probation and Parole had applied the 1985 parole eligibility guidelines to him in derogation of the ex post facto clause of the Constitution. Fults claimed entitlement to application of the 1982 parole eligibility guidelines which were in effect at the time of the commission of the crimes in 1983. The parole board…