Nullum Crimen, Nulla Poena Sine Lege

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1. Can a public-interest policy statement alone supply unlimited agency power to prescribe any criminal offense and penalt…
2. An enabling statute authorizes implementation within defined prohibitions and fixes a maximum fine. A circular independ…
3. A valid statute already defines prohibited conduct and its penalty and authorizes technical implementation. A regulatio…
4. In evaluating the historical 1969 charge addressed in Maceren under the old fisheries law, a prosecutor invokes later l…
5. An agency invokes broad conservation purposes to punish an activity outside the enabling statute’s authorized penal sco…
6. Explain the distinction between authorized administrative details and unauthorized crime creation under Maceren.
7. Why does later express criminalization not automatically cure an earlier ultra vires regulation for historical conduct?
8. An agency argues that an important public-interest goal permits any preferred penal sanction. Evaluate.