Legal Opinion
Piper v. Perrin
District Court, D. New Hampshire
Decided February 16, 1983No. 1:09-adr-00013PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
DEVINE, Chief Judge.
David E. Piper petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, claiming as ground therefor that Warden Perrin’s decision to alter the method by which statutory “good conduct” credits are calculated against a prisoner’s sentence constitutes, as applied to Piper, an ex post facto law. Petitioner has exhausted his remedies in state court, and the petition is properly before the Court for review on the merits. See Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 475, 487, 93 S.Ct. 1827, 1835, 36 L.Ed.2d 439 (1973). 1
The relevant facts are undisputed. Petitioner is…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- Preiser v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Weaver v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Marks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States Parole Commission v. GeraghtySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Calder v. BullSupreme Court of the United States · 1798
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- Gary Offet v. Herman Solem and Ben Dearduff, Individually and in Their Official CapacitiesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1991
- Lerner v. GillDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 1984
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