Benton v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “In this case, the [OLC] policy statement is interpretative rather than substantive. The interpretation does not create any new law or extra-statutory obligation.”
• “Since Benton’s sentence is not increased, there is no violation of the ex post facto clause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).