Question

The complainant was a convicted sex offender. After his conviction, Massachusetts passed a law that would require him to wear a satellite-based monitoring device. He challenged the law’s application to him as unconstitutional because it would, expost facto, apply a punishment that was not in existence when he committed the crime. Should this argument be successful? Explain.

Answer 1

According to the court of law , the rules enforceable at the time of conviction was only applicable to the convicted person , but sometimes court developed a new standard based on their experiences and practices which allows some bylaws under which the convicted may be proscecuted if not by the law enforceable after the conviction but otherwise also, that depends on the judge of that court.

In this case, convicted argued from the right angle to save himself , though even if he would not have to wear that monitoring device , then also some sort of penalty or a little punishment would be there .