Amicus Curiae Brief in Carr v. United States

Together, Doug Berman, Wayne Logan, and I authored an amicus brief on behalf of law professors in the case of Carr v. United States. Wherease the petitioner's brief primarily focused on the statutory interpretation issues in the case, our brief was solely concerned with the Ex Post Facto Clause claim. You can find the brief here.

Comments

[George]

Excellent brief that even the media and I could understand. If it would be helpful, California also has recidivism studies. They are linked to at the blog post below.

http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-scientist-reports-low-sex-offender.html

[rodsmith3510]

i agree pity it's not from the actual lawyers in the case itself. Since it seems to be calling the Supreme Court out using it's own words and test's againt it from the 2002 decison even so far as to call the so-called "hi-recidividsom" junk science not proven and can be refuted with over a decade with 100's of studies including the USDOJ.

I love it.

[George]

The links to the California 10-year study finding a 3.38% return to prison rate for a new sex offense linked at the blog are broken, so here is a direct link (.doc).

http://www.karenfranklin.com/Ten%20year%20recidivism%20study%20CDCR%206-17-08.doc

[David Hess]

Excellent!

[Joe]

Great work. And very thorough.