Legal Opinion
Hallmark v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 25, 1997No. 95-20752, 95-20869, 95-21050, 96-20115, 96-20587, 96-20901, 95-50531 and 96-50140PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge:
In this consolidated appeal, the appellants present a common issue: whether the Texas Board of Criminal Justice’s 1993 directive eliminating the discretion of the Director of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to restore good time credits previously forfeited for disciplinary violations constituted a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause when applied to prisoners with forfeited good time credits at the time of the directive. Finding no violation of the Constitution’s ex post facto prohibition, we affirm the various district courts on…
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