Artis v. U.S. Department of Justice

OPINION

SIMANDLE, District Judge.

This matter is an application for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 by petitioner Randolph Artis, an inmate at FCI Fairton who is serving a lengthy term of imprisonment for beating his wife to death with a baseball bat. In his petition, Mr. Artis claims that his due process and ex post facto rights have been violated because the United States Parole Commission applied the federal parole rules rather than the Army parole regulations to his case. For the reasons discussed herein, the petition will be denied.

I. BACKGROUND

On February 22, 1983,…