Delay v. Missouri Board of Probation & Parole

RONALD R. HOLLIGER, Presiding Judge.

Dallas Delay appeals the denial by the circuit court of his petition for a writ of mandamus. In his petition he requested that the trial court order the Board of Probation and Parole to grant him probation. He asserted that the Board, in denying his parole, had violated his due process rights and the prohibition on ex post facto laws. The issues Delay raises were squarely decided in State ex rel Cavallaro v. Groose, 908 S.W.2d 133 (Mo. banc 1995), where another inmate claimed a liberty interest in parole based on the application of a repealed parole…