Legal Opinion
Bledsoe v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 1, 2004No. 03-3224PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we are asked to determine whether a 1987 amendment to the Sentencing Reform Act violated petitioners’ rights to due process, or was otherwise an unlawful bill of attainder or Ex Post Facto law. Because we answer those questions in the negative, we affirm the decision of the district court. **
Background and Procedural History
Before November 1, 1987, The Parole Commission and Reorganization Act of 1976 (PCRA) governed the terms of federal sentences. Pub.L. No. 94-283, § 2, 90 Stat. 219 (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 4201-4218 (1982) (repealed 1984,…
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