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Change in Parole Hearings Violates Ex Post Facto
Loaded on July 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1994, page 9
PLN readers may recall that in the December, 1993, issue we reported on the conflict within the ninth circuit on whether changing the frequency of parole board hearings violates the Ex Post Facto provisions of the constitution. In Powell v. Ducharme, 998 F.2d 710 (9th Cir. 1993) the ninth circuit ...
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