John H. Chambers v. Colorado Department of Corrections Margaret Heil, in Her Individual and Official Capacity

OPINION ON REMAND

JOHN C. PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge.

The questions presented here are whether the Colorado Department of Corrections’ Sex Offender Component classifying John H. Chambers a sex offender and requiring his participation in the Sexual Offender .Treatment Program (SOTP) violates the Ex Post Facto Clause and implicates a liberty interest under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We affirm, in part, and reverse, in part.

Mr. Chambers, an inmate in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC), began serving a thirty-nine year sentence for aggravated…