State of New Hampshire v. Kurt Carpentino

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing when interpreting sentencing statute that this court “will avoid construing statutes in a manner that would 6 produce an unjust and seemingly illogical result”
• explaining that the line of cases holding that ameliorative sentencing statutes should be applied retroactively applies to amendments that “reduce the penalty for a pre-existing crime,” but not to amendments that “effectively eliminate[]” a crime
• \We find it difficult to infer legislative intent that an amendment should apply retrospectively when the legislature set an effective date for that amendment nearly six months into the future.\
• “We find it difficult to infer legislative intent that an amendment should apply retrospectively when the legislature set an effective date for that amendment nearly six months into the future.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).