Spickes Bros. Painting Contractors, Inc. v. Worthen Bank & Trust Co., N.A.

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• a defendant must be sentenced under the relevant statutory scheme in place at the time he committed the crime at issue
• “given . . . the possibility that the offense occurred prior to the 2006 amendment, the life sentence for [aggravated child molestation] was in error.”
• sentences were ex post facto in application where defendant “was sentenced under a later version of the statute than the one in effect when the crimes were committed”
• sentences were ex post facto in application where defendant “was sentenced under a later version of the statute than the one in effect when the crimes were committed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).