Opinion ID: 218707
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Heading: Prior state court proceedings

Text: Prior to filing his § 2241 petition, Williams filed a petition for a writ of prohibition in Oklahoma state court on April 25, 2007, challenging the revocation of his parole and contending that ODOC’s retroactive application of its March 2000 policy to him amounted to an ex post facto violation. Id. at 109–18. He filed a motion to amend this petition on December 26, 2007. Id. at 119. The state court denied Williams’s petition on December 31, 2008, because venue and jurisdiction were improper. Id. at 129. Williams did not file a direct appeal. Rather, on January 20, 2009, Williams filed a petition for an extraordinary writ of habeas corpus or writ of mandamus in the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, asserting that ODOC “ha[d] failed to accord towards the satisfaction of his sentence the proper number of time credits to which [Williams] believe[d] himself entitled.” Id. at 147. Specifically, Williams alleged that ODOC had retroactively applied its March 2000 policy to him, resulting in an ex post facto violation. Id. Williams filed a similar petition on February 2, 2009, in the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which was transferred to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Id. at 146. On March 12, 2009, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals declined to exercise original jurisdiction over 3 According to ODOC, when Williams returned to ODOC custody on December 22, 2006, it identified errors in Williams’s record and removed 480 earned credits that he had improperly been awarded. ROA at 29. 4 both petitions. Id. at 147–49.