United States v. Stuart Jeffrey Paskow

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this case is whether the ex post facto clause is violated when a statutory amendment that increases a penalty to be imposed upon the revocation of supervised release is applied in a case in which the underlying offense was committed before the amendment was adopted but the conduct that led to revocation of supervised release occurred afterwards. We conclude that applying the amendment under such circumstances violates the ex post facto clause.

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Stuart Jeffrey Paskow conspired to receive the proceeds of a bank robbery and received of the proceeds of a bank…