Price v. Warden, No. 14-30349 (5th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePetitioner appealed the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that the state court judgment violated the Ex Post Facto Clause. Petitioner was sentenced for armed robbery in Louisiana in 1985. At issue was Louisiana's judicial forfeiture of good-time credit statute. In Scafati v. Greenfield, the court held that a good-time forfeiture law enacted after a prisoner's sentencing is retrospective, even if forfeiture is triggered by the parolee's post-enactment conduct. In light of Greenfield, the court held that Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:571.4(B)(2) is void as applied to petitioner, whose crime occurred before its effective date. Therefore, the court reversed and remanded for further proceedings.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on May 26, 2015.
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