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To: JFoobar
They want to send them back to prison under a new terrorism law, which is retroactive, which violates double jeopardy Constitutional law.

Actually now. The Hammonds were convicted under laws that called for a mandatory five year minimum sentence. The jury sentenced them to terms that were less than that. A court ordered them back to jail because that's what the law required. Now if your argument is against mandatory sentences then I may not disagree with you. But there isn't any double jeopardy issues here.

70 posted on 01/03/2016 4:59:31 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

“A new law” is the basis for Double Jeopardy. That’s why they call it ‘time served’. And not ‘time served until they pass a new law’.


87 posted on 02/02/2016 6:21:29 PM PST by JFoobar
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