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Old 09-14-2012, 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by barry123400 View Post
It sounds like the law was changed between the time the issue took place and the time of prosecution. He was probably tried under the new law and that wouild be fundemaentally wrong.
I'm not a legal scholar but can you do that? I always thought that you can only try them under the existing law that the time the crime was committed? Can you be punished for something that you did that was legal at the time?
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