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Mississippi Good Time Violates Ex Post Facto
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1997, page 13
The supreme court of Mississippi held that retroactive application of a statute requiring felons to serve 85% of their sentence before release violated the ex post facto provisions of the Mississippi and United States constitutions. In 1995 the Mississippi legislature enacted Senate Bill (SB) 2175 which amended Miss. Code Ann. …
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