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Cumulative Tightening of Michigan Lifers' Parole Eligibility Rules Held Ex Post Facto

by John R. Dannenberg

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, has held that a decade of cumulative changes to parole eligibility regulations for Michigan's life-sentenced prisoners violated the U.S. Constitution's ban on ex post facto laws.

While the ruling, on behalf of seven named ...

 

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