[Spiwak]

I remember reading him. I'm very happy he's been released. The legal system is so baffling sometimes.

Also, I don't know much about law, pinkgothic, but that example is silly. It's unfair for someone to sit in prison for an extended period of time for a law that no longer exists. Think about it this way, why should George, who committed some hypothetical crime five years ago, have to sit in prison for another five years when Bill, who committed the same crime a month ago, receive no punishment whatsoever for the very same crime George is still in prison for (and will be in prison for five more years). It seems to me that retroactive laws only make sense.