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Ex Post Facto Conflict Within Ninth Circuit
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1993, page 16
In the October PLN we reported on the case of Powell v. DuCharme , 998 F.2d 710 (9th Cir. 1993) in which a panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals held that the ex post facto clause was not violated by the application of Washington state's new parole scheme …
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