Legal Opinion
Neelley v. Walker
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided March 30, 2018No. CASE NO. 2:14-CV-269-WKWPublished
1Opinion of the Court
W. Keith Watkins, CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Plaintiff Judith A. Neelley was originally sentenced to death, but Alabama Governor *1242Fob James commuted her sentence to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. A few years later, the Alabama Legislature made a class of its inmates ineligible for parole. That class consists of exactly one inmate.
Ms. Neelley.
According to Ms. Neelley, that change in Alabama law violated both the ban on bills of attainder and the ban on ex post facto laws in Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution. She brings this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…
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