CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter ROGERS and KEELER: Ex Post Facto Law, Butcher Knife, Due Process

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C144
• Professor: Meeker

Document Summary

Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place: defendant stabbed james bowdery with a butcher knife, bowdery went into cardiac arrest and then a coma; he died of related complications about 15 months later. Issues in front of the appellate court: petitioner contends that the ex post facto clause would prohibit the retroactive application of a decision abolishing the year and a day rule if accomplished by the. Tennessee legislature: claims that the purposes behind the clause are so fundamental that due process should prevent the supreme court of tennessee from accomplishing the same result by judicial decree. Appellate decision confirm or reverse conviction: the us supreme court held that this result did not violate the due process or ex post. Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place: five months after obtaining a divorce, a man intercepted his ex-wife on a mountain road.