Daniel v. Fulwood

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

AMIT P. MEHTA, JUDGE

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs are six prisoners who committed District of Columbia criminal code offenses before March 3,1985. Their complaint alleges that the United States Parole Commission violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution by retroactively applying parole eligibility guidelines that the Parole Commission issued in 2000, rather than the eligibility guidelines that were in effect at the time of their offenses. Plaintiffs originally brought the Ex Post Facto claim in 2010 on them own behalf and on behalf of a class of “all others…