Claudius ATKINSON, Appellant. v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES

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• stating that in retroactivity analysis, “a court can certainly be guided by considerations of fair notice, reasonable reliance, and settled expectations”
• stating that the defendant’s conviction was the “important event” to which the federal statute attached a new legal consequence
• focusing on the date of conviction as the important event for a retroactivity analysis
• \[W]e conclude that reliance is but one consideration in assessing whether a statute attaches new legal consequences to past events.\
• “[W]e conclude that reliance is but one consideration in assessing whether a statute attaches new legal consequences to past events.”
• “[A]bsent a legal determination of guilt, the alien is not subject to deportation or in need of section 212(c) relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).