Labels:book | bulletin board | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: punishment The fact that there is no guarantee that yearly reviews make any difference 11 Roller's ultimate release date does not diminish the constitutional error of the State's action. In the case of Lindsey Washington. 301 U.S 397 (1937) the petitioner committed a burglary at a time when there was minimum sentence of six months and a maximum sentence of fifteen years. At the time of sentencing the law had changed to provide for a mandatory fifteen year sentence. This Court found the application of the mandatory sentence to Lindsey to e violative of ex post facto. Although Lindsey could have been sentenced to fifteen years under the original statute such sentence was not mandated. true that petitioners might have been sentenced to fifteen years under the statute. But the isod facto claus ...
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