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: JURIST - The Paper ChaseSupreme Court rules on plain error in alleged ex post facto violation
By Dwyer Arce
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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-1 in United States v. Marcus [Cornell LII backgrounder] that the lower court had misapplied precedent interpreting plain error in an alleged ex post facto violation. The court held that the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had erred in its interpretation of two criteria in finding that a plain error had occurred at trial under Rule 52(b) [text] of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedu read more
Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).
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