Legal Opinion
Snodgrass v. Robinson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 11, 2008No. 07-1463PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MELLOY, Circuit Judge.
State prisoner Sherryl Ann Snodgrass filed suit alleging that the Iowa Board of Parole (“the Board”), the Board’s members, and the governor of Iowa violated her constitutional rights by applying laws and regulations governing sentence commutation requests even though the laws were passed after her conviction. She alleges these acts violated the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution and caused a deprivation of her Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. U.S. Const. Art. I, § 10, cl. 1; Amend. V; Amend. XIV, § 1. The district court 1 granted a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- California Department of Corrections v. MoralesSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Connecticut Board of Pardons v. DumschatSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Garner v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Hughes Anderson Bagley, Jr., Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Russell Rogerson and Patsy Bozarth, Appellants/cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
- State v. SnodgrassSupreme Court of Iowa · 1984
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- United States v. SenoglesDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 2008
- Keith Lewis-El v. Barbara SampsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2011
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