Donald Aragon v. John Shanks

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Donald Aragon filed the instant 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition in December 1993, challenging the constitutionality of New Mexico’s application of certain meritorious and industrial good time credits to Aragon’s term of incarceration. The district court dismissed the petition with prejudice, concluding that amended regulations relating to the dispensation of good time credits did not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause and that New Mexico had applied the good time credits in a manner consistent with the relevant state statutes. Aragon then moved this court for a…