Posted on 10/04/2005 7:15:50 AM PDT by rwtruthteller
It seems that District Attorney Ronnie Earl hasn’t heard of the ex post facto provision that the framer put in our constitution. For those who do not know, the constitution prohibits prosecution of an act that was legal when it was done, but later a law was passed making it illegal. A hypothetical example: someone commits a brutal murder, but people think the existing laws will not punish the murderer severely enough; so the legislative powers enact laws that will more severely punish those who have committed the crime of murder ensuring that this specific murderer will get a prison sentence longer than that prescribed at the time he committed the crime. Yesterday, Ronnie earl quickly convened a new grand jury.....
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Earle is losing this quickly. Its now reported that the new indictment was rushed to cover up for the mess up on the first one.
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