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Maryland Sentence Reduction Rule Violates Ex Post Facto Clause

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007 published in Prison Legal News January, 2007, page 12
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Ex Post Facto, Good Time. Location: Maryland.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has struck down an administrative regulation amending another regulation to deny previously authorized sentence reduction credits for certain categories of prisoners.

In January of 2002, Quinton Demby, Jesse Baltimore, Kenneth Woodall, Daniel Falcone, and Earl Cox were all serving time in Maryland state prisons. Each …

 

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