Matter of Stanphill

How courts have described this case

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• discussing petitioner’s request for his sentencing to be based on law in place at the time
• discussing petitioner's request for his sentencing to be based on law in place at the time
• petitioner cannot prevail in ex post facto challenge without showing with certainty that the punishment is harsher
• “A law is retrospective if it ‘changes the legal consequences of acts completed before its effective date.’ ”
• \A law is retrospective if it `changes the legal consequences of acts completed before its effective date.'\
• ex post facto laws disadvantage citizens because they impose punishment for an act which was not punishable when committed, or increased the quantum after the crime was committed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).