Roderick Wilson v. C.M. Lensing and Attorney General of Louisiana

Petitioner-Appellant Roderick Wilson complains that the federal district court erred in denying his petition for habeas corpus grounded in the Constitution’s prohibition against ex post facto laws. Finding that the district court correctly determined that Wilson had not been subjected to an ex post facto violation by retroactive application of Louisiana’s amendment of a statute affecting the jurisdiction of its sentencing courts for purposes of imposing multiple offender sentences, we affirm.

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In 1977 Wilson was convicted by a state court in Louisiana of two counts of armed robbery. At…