On 20 Jan 2014, at 21:38 , Cari Machet <carimac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > FYI now they make laws that are retroactive to indict - i know of a case (or > 5 actually) where the law was made to indict and convict 2 years after the > "crime" yup ppl went to fed prison for years ... seems the breech of the rule > of law by the US has come more out of the shadows
Do you have a citation for those cases? I’m not doubting you, but the legal sophistry to argue that an ex post facto law was constitutional despite the explicit prohibition would be interesting. I’ve heard of cases where higher penalties were applied than existed at the time (which IIRC is banned by the ECHR and possibly the CCPR, although is allowed in the USA and elsewhere), or where statutes of limitations were extended, but a blatant ex post facto law seems surprising.
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