Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: ex post facta violation. The Fourth Circuit disagreed, effec- tively overruling South Carolina's highest court We believe that the Fourth Circuit's decision uo the merits was error The Fourth Circuit oversimplified equating reconsideration for parole with eligibility tor Parole The two are not the same and the difference abso lutely crucial to correct analysis of the or past facto problem presented here When reconsideration for parole is equated with parole eligibility the ana lysis comes end, because parole eligibility attaches the punish- ment change 11 parole eligibility, applied Ietroactivelv disad vantage of the prisoner violates the constitu tional prohibition But the point is irrelevant, because parole eligibility was never issue here Respondent's parole eligibility has remained unc ...
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