Shaffer v. Meyers’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Prima facie it does not seem likely that the criteria cited by the Board in Shaffer’s case — participation in a treatment program for sex offenders, the recommendation of the Department of Corrections, Shaffer’s conduct record and whether he completed any prescribed programs — would not have been considered by the Board pre-amendment, and Shaffer cites no evidence to persuade us otherwise. But even if we assume that the Board would have used different criteria pre-amendment, Shaffer has not provided adequate reasons to support the contention that application of those criteria would likely have resulted in his release on parole.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 484 F. Supp. 2d 359 - Inmates of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Corbett