McGhee v. State

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

Appellant appeals the application of the seventy-percent parole-eligibility rule to his sentence for manufacture of a controlled substance, methamphetamine. Appellant argues that application of the rule to his sentence violated both the federal and state constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws because his crime was committed before methamphetamine offenses became subject to the seventy-percent rule. We affirm because appellant failed to preserve his argument for appellate review.

In 1998, appellant was arrested and charged with a number of offenses…