Labels:book | bulletin board | monitor | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: "[s]ubtie ex post facto violations are no more permissible than overt ones 497 U.S at 46. This position also assumes that the opportunity to secure release is not a matter of substance As practicai matter, no typicai inmate coulti reasonably be expected to distinguish between the initial eligibility and subsequent consideration for parole each situation hearing is the only means which the inmate may obtain release The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held that the distinction was iuelevant for the purposes of the eX post facto clause To argue that the disadvantage to Roller imposed by South Carolina's Omnibus Crime Bill is insubstantial and therefore constitutional flies the face or the purpose and spirit of the ex tsod facto clause retrospective increase in the burden of punishme ...
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