Not a lawyer, but, if this report is accurate this seems to me to be faulty thinking and a disservice to those convicted. If a person is convicted under a premise of the law and that premise is false and not what the law as written intended then to cite the cost in time, effort, and manpower seems to me to be the antithesis of justice under law in the first place.
In the US legal system, procedure trumps truth.
Loath - not ‘loathe’ - in this context.
Alito is WRONG.
Has this guy been in jail since 2000 for felon in possession? Murderers serve less time.
The Constitution forbids Congress from passing an ex post facto law, essentially making a formerly legal act illegal, and then charging a person for the illegal act that was committed before the new law was passed.
However, SCOTUS can, at some point in the future, interpret a law that makes a previously illegal act legal, and thereby create an ex post facto legality?
-PJ
I usually fall 100% with Alito, but that is an absolute. If a man is innocent, or a law he was convicted under is ruled unconstitutional or something, he MUST be released.
It’s depraved to keep him locked up because it could inconvenience the state.
He should know better.