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    Question Defendant Placed on Community Supervision for Life

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: New Jersey

    I am on Community Supervision for Life and have been since the end of my prison sentence in 2006. I was incarcerated in 2003, stemming for an arrest in 2001 for a crime committed in 1994. Hence, 7 years passed between commission of crime (when I was 17 years old) to when I was arrested. I have been on Community Supervision for Life for 9 years now and have had 3 violations (1 leaving the state, 1 not checking in with officer, 1 other).

    The Question I have is this: what are the ex post facto laws for something like Community Supervision for Life (CSL) when I signed a plea deal in 2003 and a new "subsection" of the law comes out, for instance a new law in 2008 stating that I couldn't access any social media sites (when the internet had nothing to do with my crime). Are "they" allowed to enforce laws like this which, in my case, clearly seems to be a violation of ex post facto law, i.e. changing a behavior afterward to make it illegal retroactively. I believe that Parole hides behind the fact that once a person is on CSL all new laws and restrictions apply.

    I don't think this should be the case. I think that according to ex post facto a person on CSL should only be restricted to the rules, regulations, and laws at the time that they either signed the plea or were found guilty of the crime.

    Please help out with this one, I would like to file.

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    Default Re: Ex Post Facto and Community Supervision for Life

    Jolly, you should put all your stuff in one thread rather than giving us partial fragments that keeps us from understanding what the issues. My vague answer in your other thread would have been more detailed had I a clue what you were really talking about.

    Alas, changing the conditions of probation and things like sexual offender registration/restrictions has been largely held NOT to be an ex post facto law.

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