Yost v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Cuyler v. Adams · Smith v. Yeager · People Ex Rel. Barrett v. Bartley · Jones v. Rayborn · United States v. Dixon
Most-quoted passages
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“The Corrections Department’s transfer of Yost ... was in direct violation of Section 2 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Such capricious and dilatory tactics were unreasonable and completely failed to follow a statutory or judicial scheme. Therefore, we hold the transfer of Appellant Yost, without proper statutory authority, operated as a forfeiture of the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s right to enforce the completion of the sentence under which it was holding him at the time of the transfer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hale
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