Pindle v. Poteat.

• Position: Cases of habeas corpus - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

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EX POST FACTO

Pindle v. Poteat, 360 F.Supp.2d 17 (D.D.C. 2003). A District of Columbia prisoner petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus after the rules pertaining to his eligibility for parole were modified. The court held that a change of parole rules, from a system that would have allowed for the grant of parole to a particular prisoner, to a system which did not allow for parole for that prisoner based upon the same facts, did not deprive the prisoner of a mandatory right to parole and therefore did not...