Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Commissioner of Correction
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided January 1, 2002No. SC 16440PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PALMER, J.
This appeal requires us to decide whether Public Acts 1995, No. 95-255, § 1 (P.A. 95-255),1 which
*806amended General Statutes (Rev. to 1995) § 54-125a2 by *807increasing from 50 percent to 85 percent the portion of a sentence that certain violent offenders must serve before becoming eligible for parole, applies retroactively to those offenders who committed their offenses prior to the effective date of P.A. 95-255, § 1, and, if so, whether such retroactive application violates the ex post facto clause of the United States constitution.3 The petitioner, Dwayne Johnson, brought this…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Preiser v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Engle v. IsaacSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Weaver v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by45 opinions
- State v. FaradaySupreme Court of Connecticut · 2004
- Ajadi v. Commissioner of CorrectionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2006
- Lebron v. Commissioner of CorrectionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2005
- Briggs v. McWeenySupreme Court of Connecticut · 2002
- State v. NowellSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2003
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