Caballery v. United States Parole Commission

DALY, District Judge:

This is an appeal from a denial of appellant Caballery’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, entered upon an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Morris E. Lasker, J.). Caballery’s habeas petition was premised on the claim that application of a Parole Commission regulation, promulgated in 1977, to toll his Youth Corrections Act (YCA) sentence, which was imposed in 1975, for the time during which he had absconded from parole was a violation of the ex post facto provision of the Constitution. Judge Lasker held that the 1977…