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Onerous Change in Michigan Commutation Procedures Fails to State Ex Post Facto Claim

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2012 published in Prison Legal News September, 2012, page 42
Filed under: Sentencing, Ex Post Facto, Pardons/Clemency. Location: Michigan.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a change in procedures for commutation of sentence does not constitute an ex post facto violation.

The appellate court ruled in a case involving Michigan prisoner Keith Lewis-El, who was serving a non-parolable life sentence for first-degree felony murder. Lewis-El appealed …

 

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