Weaver v. Graham
- Decided
- February 24, 1981
- Docket
- 79-5780
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 2,482 timesOverruled on other grounds (not yet verified)Possible negative treatment: overruled on other grounds, abrogated in part, disapproved on other grounds, abrogated on other grounds, questioned, overruled in part on other grounds (not yet verified) · Leavitt v. Office of Professional Conduct
What later courts said
- holding that a state's revision to administrative rules of its good-time credit system that disadvantages all previously sentenced inmates violates Ex Post Facto Clause — (untitled) (1993)
- holding that a state’s revision to administrative rules of its good-time credit system that disadvantages all previously sentenced inmates violates Ex Post Facto Clause — Ewell v. Murray (1993)
- holding that new state statute reducing amount of good time that could be earned prospectively by current inmates violates Ex Post Facto Clause because it removed existing opportunity for shortened prison time — Hamm v. Latessa, MCI (1995)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Justice Marshall delivered the opinion of the Court.
Florida, like many other States, rewards each convicted prisoner for good conduct and obedience to prison rules by using a statutory formula that reduces the portion of his sentence that he must serve. In this case, we consider whether a Florida statute altering the availability of such “gain time for good conduct” [1] is unconstitutional as an ex post facto law when applied to petitioner, whose crime was committed before the statute’s enactment.
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Cite this
Weaver v. Graham, 450 U.S. 24 (1981)Read the full opinion
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