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In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.

it was unnecessary to the outcome of the case. Id. at 507 n. 3, 115 S.Ct. 1597. Clarifying its precedent, the Supreme Court stated an ex post facto violation does not rest on an inmate's lost opportunity to reduce prison time but, rather, only upon a finding that legislation retroactively modified the definition of or increased the penalty for an inmate's crime: After Collins, the focus of the ex post facto inquiry is not on whether a legislative change produces some ambiguous sort of 'disadvantage,' nor ... on whether an amendment affects a prisoner's 'opportunity to take advantage of provisions for early release,' but on whether any such change alters the definition of criminal conduct or increases the. penalty by which a crime is punishable. Id. See also id. at 514, 115 S.Ct. 1597 (<HOLDING>). Moreover, the Supreme Court has never
Holding statements: (A) holding that parole guidelines are subject to the ex post facto clause (B) holding the application of change in law regarding the timetable for being eligible for parole board hearings was not an increase in punishment violative of the ex post facto clause (C) holding change in ultimate parole decisionmaker from board to governor does not violate ex post facto clause (D) holding that the ex post facto clause has no application to deportation (E) holding that a change in parole law violates the ex post facto clause if the change in the law created a sufficient risk of increasing the measure of punishment attached to the covered crimes
Output:
(B)