Supreme Court rules on retroactive application of sentencing guidelines

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 Monday in Peugh v. United States [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that there is an ex post facto [Cornell LII backgrounder] violation when a defendant is sentenced under US Sentencing Guidelines [materials] promulgated after he committed his criminal acts and the new version provides a higher applicable Guidelines sentencing range than the version in place at the time of the offense. The petitioner in the case, Marvin Peugh, argued that the US...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/supreme-court-rules-on-retroactive-application-of-sentencing-guidelines.php

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