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Texas Sex Offender Counseling Provision Not Ex Post Facto

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Sentencing, Ex Post Facto, Probation, Parole Conditions, Sex Offender Treatment. Location: Texas.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a statute enacted after a
prisoner was convicted and sentenced is not ex post facto if it is not
punitive. Texas prisoner George W. Rieck, Jr., filed a habeas corpus
petition challenging the revocation of his mandatory supervision on a
charge of …

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