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To: So Cal Rocket
The statute of limitations law should be changed for those types of crimes immediately...but IMO the court ruled correctly that it can't be made retroactive.
4 posted on 07/10/2003 9:52:54 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
In my opinion, the SCOTUS ruled incorrectly...

The Ex Post Facto doctrine was instituted to ensure that individuals are not convicted of a crime for an action that was LEGAL at the time they performed it. The acts that these men perfomed were certainly ILLEGAL at the time that they performed them.
7 posted on 07/10/2003 10:03:10 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
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