Graham v. Norris

TOM GLAZE, Justice.

This appeal represents the last in a trilogy of cases in which inmates contend they were unlawfully denied meritorious good time when the General Assembly enacted what Teddy Graham contends to be ex post facto legislation. Duncan v. State, 337 Ark. 306, 987 S.W.2d 721 (1999); Ellis v. Norris, 333 Ark. 200, 968 S.W.2d 609 (1998). Our court took jurisdiction of this case to interpret certain Arkansas acts and statutes that deal with prisoners’ meritorious good time and to determine if those laws, or the State’s application of them, have violated Arkansas’s or the United…