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· 3/26/2009

In Re DNA Ex Post Facto Issues

Citations

  • 561 F.3d 294
  • 2009 WL 783391

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that South Carolina’s “DNA- sample requirement” does “not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause” because it is “not penal in nature”
  • \[T]he relatively small size of the fee also indicates that it was not intended to have significant retributive or deterrent value.\
  • \[T]he relatively small size of the fee also indicates that it was not intended to have significant retributive or deterrent value.\
  • \the relatively small size of the fee . . . indicate[d] that it was not intended to have a significant retributive or deterrent value...\
  • \[T]he relatively small size of the fee also indicates that it was not intended to have significant retributive or deterrent value.\

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Judges: Traxler, Duncan, and Agee, Circuit Judges

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