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  1. #1
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    Default Do You Support Retroactive Laws?

    I'm against the law. I don't feel laws should be used to go into the past. Unless its to correct a law by compensating or countering an unlawful law.

    The main thing bringing me here wasa look at the sex offender registry and seeing several people I knew of and the dates of their offenses. All of them where before that January 1, 1995 National Registry Act or whatever.

    One of the men I saw had commited an act predating the rise of Castro! He had done nothing since though.

    This is also in response to an incident about 3 years ago when there was a massive local uproar involving I believe an old folk's home where quite a few died in a blaze. Homicide chargeswere wanted but the sprinker set up or lack of predated the sprinkler law. I believe the issue was known but the man decided to not act on updates due to retroactivity protecting him from a legal obligation.

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    Default Re: Do You Support Retroactive Laws?

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    I'm against the law.
    No wonder you get into so much trouble, then.
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    I don't feel laws should be used to go into the past. Unless its to correct a law by compensating or countering an unlawful law.
    In most cases, new laws are not retroactive. Courts seem very willing to carve out exceptions for such things as sex offender registration, despite worthy arguments that such laws are ex post facto when applied retroactively.
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    I believe the issue was known but the man decided to not act on updates due to retroactivity protecting him from a legal obligation.
    That may be more of a regulatory issue - a new or renovated building would have had to have been brought "up to code", but an older building could continue to operate based upon its having been built in compliance with then-existing (and much more lax) building code provisions.

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    Default Re: Do You Support Retroactive Laws?

    No wonder you get into so much trouble, then.
    the retro law i meant

    now it was involuntary manslaighter they they wanted to charge him with. Not homicide, and the codes ARE the laws. So its against the law not to follow the code.

    i dont understand the sex offender issue. If your not charged by the new law how can you break it? There is an SOL on these offenses and if that SOL expired before the new registry law was passed how does it recognize you as an offender ifyou werent labeled an offender prior?

    The man who commited his offense in 1958, did the charge then make him a sex offender or just someone chaRGED with a sex offense? Is the 1995 law scanning the records to find a way to attach itself to these people? If the registry of any type wasnt apart of the old man's punishment at the time how can they add it?

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