Allen v. Belleque

MEMORANDUM **

Oregon state prisoner James Randy Allen appeals from the district court’s judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.

Allen contends that the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision violated the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution when, in 2003, it retroactively applied Or. Rev. Stat. § 163.115(5)(e) to (e) (1999) to set a parole hearing for Allen, to be held after he serves the 25-year mandatory minimum sentence under § 163.115(5)(b). Specifically, Allen contends that at the…