Creel v. Kyle

ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

James Duke Creel (Creel), a prisoner at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice— Institutional Division (TDCJ), filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging that his parole review hearings have been conducted in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution. The district court dismissed the complaint as frivolous pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d). We affirm.

FACTS

Creel was convicted of murder in October 1971, and was given a life sentence. He became eligible for parole in 1981 and has remained eligible for parole to the present time.…