Ray Mychel Fender v. Charles Thompson, Warden Attorney General of the State of Virginia

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• holding that notice is irrelevant where “the challenged statute nevertheless accomplished an impermissible enhancement of the punishment for an earlier, unrelated crime”
• rejecting argument that statute was not retrospective because it was simply an enhanced punishment for the crime of escape, operating as any recidivist statute would by fixing the consequences of a later crime
• “parole eligibility is part of the law annexed to the crime at the time of a person’s offense” [citation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).