Jeffery Wansley v. MS Department of Corrections, e

GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections denied Jeffery Wayne Wansley a parole hearing based on its view that he received an enhanced penalty, which renders a prisoner ineligible for parole in Mississippi. In seeking federal habeas corpus relief, Wansley argues that his sentence was not enhanced, and that the denial of a hearing violated state law and therefore deprived him of a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court granted his petition, ordering a parole hearing. On appeal, Respondents argue that the…