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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

PINE BLUFF DIVISION

BILLY JACK KAIN, JR., PETITIONER

ADC #083093

v. 5:15CV00286-JLH-JJV

WENDY KELLEY, Director, RESPONDENT

Arkansas Department of Correction 

ORDER

Respondent says Mr. Kain’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. No. 2) is successive

and should be dismissed on that basis alone. (Doc. No. 9) I agree that most of the grounds Mr. Kain

cites are successive. But Mr. Kain also says, in 2010, the Arkansas Department of Correction

modified the application of his sentence to require he serve “100%” of his sentence in violation of

the expost facto clause of the Constitution. (Doc. No. 2 at 11.) I find this challenges the fact that

“[h]e is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States” and is not

successive. 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(3). See Williams v. Hobbs, 658 F.3d 842, 853 (8th Cir. 2011). 

So, within thirty (30) days, Respondent should address the merits of this claim. It would also

be helpful to have the state court’s ruling on Mr. Kain’s writ for error coram nobis as a part of this

pleading. 

IT IS SO ORDERED this 2nd day of December, 2015.

 

JOE J. VOLPE 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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