Bouie v. City of Columbia
Case Date: 07/22/1964
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Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 347 (1964),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that due process prohibits retroactive application of any judicial construction of a criminal statute that is unexpected and indefensible by reference to the law which has been expressed prior to the conduct in issue. This holding is based on the Fourteenth Amendment prohibition by the Due Process Clause against ex post facto laws.
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