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Second Circuit rejects sundry challenges to CVRA

By Douglas A. Berman

The Second Circuit this morning issues an intriguing little opinion in USA v. Eberhard, No. 05-3431 (2d Cir. May 5, 2008) (available here), which rejects a number of constitutional challenges to the Crime Victims Rights Act.  Here is one sentence that highlights the to-the-point character of the opinion in Eberhard: "A law requiring that victims be reasonably heard (if they request) after the defendant has already been convicted does not implicate the Ex Post Facto clause."

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).