United States v. Jose De Los Santos-Himitola, Walber Meza-Navarro, Pedro Guerrero-Grueso, and Alfonso Gonzalez

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Jose De Los Santos Himitola, Walber Meza Navarro, Pedro Guerrero Grueso, and Alfonso Gonzalez (“De Los Santos, et al.”) appeal from a sua sponte order by the district judge declaring them parole ineligible. The three issues now before us are as follows: first, whether the no-parole provisions of the 1986 amendments to 21 U.S.C. §§ 960 & 962 were effective immediately upon the amendments’ enactment on October 27, 1986, or were delayed until November 1, 1987 and, as a result, whether the court is now correct that defendants are ineligible for parole;…