How have courts interpreted the state ex post facto clause?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Arafiles, In re, 6 Cal.App.4th 1467, 8 Cal.Rptr.2d 492 (Cal. App. 1992):
4 "[N]either the language nor the history of the state ex post facto clause supports a different interpretation" from that accorded the cognate federal constitutional provision. (Tapia v. Superior Court (1991) 53 Cal.3d 282, 295, 279 Cal.Rptr. 592, 807 P.2d 434.)
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