Pilcher v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that application of an amended version of the Virginia Rape Shield Law in a case where the crimes were committed prior to that amendment did not constitute an ex post facto violation
• explaining that changes in procedural laws only violate ex post facto principles \when one of four recognized categories of ex post facto law is implicated\
• “Pilcher has not demonstrated that the statute affected his substantive rights” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).