Doe v. Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services

Dissenting Opinion by

BARBERA, J.

Respectfully, I dissent. For reasons I shall explain, I do not believe Petitioner is entitled to the relief he seeks under the federal'and state law grounds he asserts. I agree with Judge McDonald that the Plurality’s interpretation of Maryland’s ex post facto prohibition is unsupported by the language or history of Article 17 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights.1 *579Nor, for that matter, do I see a principled reason to depart in this case from the approach this Court has consistently taken in reading Article 17 in pari materia with the federal Ex Post Facto…