State v. Lanig

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the absence of a retroactivity clause is telling because such clauses are easily added and are commonly employed by the legislature
• noting that the absence of a retroactivity clause “strongly suggests” that the legislature did not intend retroactive application because such clauses are easily added and are commonly employed by the legislature
• declining to construe statute to apply retroactively when to do so would give rise to a serious ex post facto issue
• resorting to canons of constitutional construction to resolve ambiguity in voter-initiated constitutional amendment
• “A film canister is not so uniquely associated with the storage and transportation of drugs that, by itself, it suggests that it contains drugs.”
• “A film canister is not so uniquely associated with the storage and transportation of drugs that, by itself, it suggests that it contains drugs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).