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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 

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PUBLISH 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

ANDREW JAMES DEVINE, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

.FILED 

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit 

FEB 2 2 1989 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

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No. 87-2456 

NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF 

CORRECTIONS, 

Respondent-Appellee. 

Appeal from the United States District Court 

for the District of New Mexico 

(D.C. NO. CV-86-292-JB 

ORDER ON PETITION FOR REHEARING 

Before HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge. 

This matter comes on for consideration of appellee's 

petition for rehearing filed in the captioned appeal. 

Pursuant to appellee's petition for rehearing, the court 

hereby corrects page 21 of its opinion filed in this appeal on 

January 24, 1~89. In all other respects, appellee's petition for 

rehearing is denied. 

Appellate Case: 87-2456 Document: 01019739913 Date Filed: 02/22/1989 Page: 1 
No. 87-2456; Devine v. New Mexico Department of Corrections. 

Opinion filed on January 24, 1989 by Judge Stephanie K. Seymour. 

further provided that "[t]he effective date of the provisio~s of 

the Criminal Sentencing Act is July 1, 1979." Thus, sections 1-10 

of chapter 216 were explicitly made effective July 1, 1979. The 

most straightforward inference to be drawn from this provision is 

that the remaining sections, including section 12, had no specific 

effective date. 11 Thus, even deemphasizing the effect of the 

rules governing compilation of statutes, the holding that the 

intent of the legislature was to make chapter 216, § 12 effective 

July 1, 1979, was not immediately foreseeable. 

IV. 

Because the decision of the New Mexico Supreme Court was 

unforeseeable and retroactively enhanced Devine's punishment, it 

violated the.due process clause. Holding Devine without providing 

him a hearing on whether he should be granted parole on the date 

he would receive such a hearing in accordance with 1977 N.M. Sess. 

Laws ch. 217, § 3 would therefore be unconstitutional. 

Accordingly, the judgment below is reversed and remanded to the 

district court with instructions that the writ should issue, and 

Devine should be ordered released, unless he is provided a parole 

hearing after service of ten years imprisonment less any good time 

credit that may be applicable. 

11 The New Mexico constitution indicates that laws passed 

without specific effective dates go into effect ninety days after 

the end of the legislative session. 

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ROBERT L. HOECKER 

CLE AK 

~ttiteo ~tatez Qlourt of J\ppealz 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

OFFICE OF THE CLERK 

C404 UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE 

DENVER. COLORADO 80294 

February 22, 1989 

TO: ALL RECIPIENTS OF THE CAPTIONED OPINION. 

TELEPHONE 

(303) 844·3157 

(FTS) 564·3157 

RE: No. 87-2456; Devine v. New Mexico Department of Corrections 

Opinion filed on January 24, 1989 by Honorable Stephanie 

K. Seymour. 

Attached are a copy of the court's order of' February22, 

1989 and a copy of revised page 21 of the opinion entered in. 

this appeal on January 24, 1989. 

RLH:kmh 

attachments 

By 

. very truly yours, 

ROBERT L. HOECKER, Clerk 

Deputy Clerk 

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