Legal Opinion
William J. Prater v. U.S. Parole Commission and Thomas Keohane, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 3, 1986No. 84-1121PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the denial of a petition for habeas corpus requires us to consider the constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws. In 1969, on New Year’s Eve, Joseph Yablonski, a dissident official of the United Mine Workers union, was murdered along with his wife and daughter on the orders of the union’s president. Yablonski’s prominence, the motivation for the killings, and the murder of family members along with the prime target gave the incident unusual notoriety. See, e.g., Armbrister, Act of Vengeance: The Yablonski Murders and Their Solution (1975);…
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