context: "[A] number of courts have held that binding administrative regulations, as opposed to those that serve merely as guidelines for discretionary decisionmak-ing, are laws subject to ex post facto analysis."
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 276 F.Supp.2d 196, 219
citation_a.parenthetical: "The Ex Post Facto Clause simply forbids retroactive application of the BOP policy change to prisoners whose offense conduct predated the change."
citation_a.sentence: See Iacaboni, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1018 (“The Government may not ... instruct judges, defendants and counsel that short terms of imprisonment may ... be served in community confinement, and then, after sentencing, change the basic rules.”); see also Monahan v. Winn, 276 F.Supp.2d 196, 219 (D.Mass.2003) (“The Ex Post Facto Clause simply forbids retroactive application of the BOP policy change to prisoners whose offense conduct predated the change.”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 251 F.Supp.2d 1018, 1018
citation_b.parenthetical: "The Government may not ... instruct judges, defendants and counsel that short terms of imprisonment may ... be served in community confinement, and then, after sentencing, change the basic rules."
citation_b.sentence: See Iacaboni, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1018 (“The Government may not ... instruct judges, defendants and counsel that short terms of imprisonment may ... be served in community confinement, and then, after sentencing, change the basic rules.”); see also Monahan v. Winn, 276 F.Supp.2d 196, 219 (D.Mass.2003) (“The Ex Post Facto Clause simply forbids retroactive application of the BOP policy change to prisoners whose offense conduct predated the change.”).