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Maryland Sentence Reduction Rule Violates Ex Post Facto Clause
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2007, page 12
The Maryland Court of Appeals has struck down an administrative regulation amending another regulation to deny previously authorized sentence reduction credits for certain categories of prisoners.In January of 2002, Quinton Demby, Jesse Baltimore, Kenneth Woodall, Daniel Falcone, and Earl Cox were all serving time in Maryland state prisons. Each ...
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