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To: discostu; Wormwood
That, possibly, but also the ex post facto aspects - subjecting perps convicted under one set of laws to a newer law.

It's the lifetime electronic monitoring that's probably going to hack this up...

44 posted on 11/08/2006 3:39:26 PM PST by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: Ready4Freddy

That, possibly, but also the ex post facto aspects - subjecting perps convicted under one set of laws to a newer law.



I think you are right.

Sentencing guidelines are a legitimate topic of a law or initiative, so sentencing people convicted from this date according to new guidelines ( 100 year sentence, 30 years prison time before consideration for parole, and conditions of parole to include satellite monitoring) is legitimate.

However ... passing a law now that imposes new conditions on previously convicted offenders who are already out of parole ... is an ex post facto law, and those are unconsitutional.


50 posted on 11/08/2006 3:49:45 PM PST by Mack the knife
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