Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Dist. of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 25, 2019No. 15-5207PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Srinivasan, Circuit Judge:
In 1990, Michael Roy Johnson pleaded guilty to an armed rape he committed while out on bond for another alleged rape. He became eligible for parole in 2000. At his parole hearings in 2000, 2005, and 2008, the U.S. Parole Commission denied him parole. Each time, the Commission applied parole guidelines promulgated in 2000 rather than the 1987 guidelines in effect at the time of his offense.
Johnson brought an action claiming that the retroactive application of the 2000 guidelines in his parole hearings violated the Ex Post Facto Clause and Fifth Amendment Due Process…
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