Ex Post Facto Laws and Bills of Attainder

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1. Which lawful protection is expressly among those an ex post facto measure may impermissibly remove in the discussion in…
2. A new penal law applies solely to conduct committed after its lawful effectivity. A defendant is charged only for an ac…
3. A valid later measure reduces the punishment for an earlier offense, and the only objection is that Article III, Sectio…
4. For a completed offense, the law at the time required a particular quantum and kind of proof. A later statute expressly…
5. A statute declares a named class guilty of past wrongdoing, imposes a punitive monetary exaction immediately and exclud…
6. A retrospective statute reduces the evidence legally needed to convict for an already completed offense. Officials call…
7. A penal statute creates a rule for future conduct only. Another provision in a different law attempts to remove an accu…
8. Legislators declare a named class guilty, impose a lesser punitive sanction than death and deny any judicial trial. The…