went beyond developers.

Fennell emailed Peel Region CAO David Szwarc on June 22, 2009, asking for separate golf foursome purchases for Szwarc, Peel Region chair Emil Kolb, and Peel Living, the region’s non-profit housing corporation. In 2008 Fennell sent an email to fellow members of the police board soliciting $32,000 to buy eight tables: two for the region, two for the police department, two for the police board and two for a business that a board member worked for.

Under the subject line “2009 mayor’s gala” she wrote, “Please confirm, so they can be reserved......Gala will sell out early after last year’s success”.

In a June 25, 2010, message to Mark Brager of New Flyer, which has sold buses to Brampton, Fennell writes, “please consider Newflyer participating in the Mayors Golf140 L.Ed.2d 43 (1998), should be applied to their respective claims.

I. DOTSON'S CLAIM
A. Factual and procedural background

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Dotson challenges the retroactive application of Ohio's parole-eligibility guidelines to his sentence. He was sentenced in July of 1981 to life imprisonment for aggravated murder. Dotson alleges that, at the time of his conviction, Ohio Revised Code § 2967.13(B) provided that prisoners serving a life sentence were eligible for parole after 15 years. Pursuant to the parole-eligibility statute and regulations, Dotson received his first parole hearing in 1995. He was denied parole, and the Board scheduled a second hearing for June of 2005, with a halfway review in March of 2000. On March 1, 1998, the Ohio Parole Board adopted new guidelines to assist the Board in determining whether to grant or