A law is an ex post facto law when it makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, or increases the quantum of punishment for a crime, after its commission. The law here, increasing punishment for a third violation of a no-contact order, was enacted nearly five years before Richard Wilson committed his third violation. It applied prospectively to Wilson's future conduct, did not increase the punishment for...
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