Roller v. Cavanaugh

OPINION

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

Gary Lee Roller appeals an order of the district court granting summary judgment for the defendants in Roller’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit challenging the frequency of his parole reconsideration hearings. We must decide whether a statutory amendment increasing the length of time between parole reconsiderations from every year to every two years is an unconstitutional ex post facto law if applied to prisoners whose crimes were committed before the amendment. Concluding that it is, we reverse.

I

In early 1983, Gary Roller was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and…