Manson Caught With Cell Phone in Prison,

[Gerald]

Notorious cult leader Charles Manson — who has been behind bars for more than three decades — has been caught with having a cell phone inside his jail cell.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/04...-phone-prison/



Note:Published December 04, 2010

Should have executed him long ago.

A bit of research will convince you of his culpability and his co-defendants death warrents.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

Should have executed him long ago.

A bit of research will convince you of his culpability and his co-defendants death warrents.

Oh, no question he was sentenced to death. But then Cantafordya rescinded the death penalty, so he was commuted to life. When they reinstated it the courts decided that the sentence couldn't be retroactively uncommuted.

[kiwi_2005]

So Charles Mansion has been running a Psychic hotline from Jail

Well they gave him another 30 days on his sentence.
That ought to teach him a lesson.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by privateer

Well they gave him another 30 days on his sentence.
That ought to teach him a lesson.

True true.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Oh, no question he was sentenced to death. But then Cantafordya rescinded the death penalty, so he was commuted to life. When they reinstated it the courts decided that the sentence couldn't be retroactively uncommuted.

I'm not familiar with that aspect of the case against Manson (or much else about him other than his followers killed a bunch of people) but wouldn't that be a case of Expost Facto? Don't criminals sentenced under one law remain sentenced even if the laws are rewritten and vice versa (ie one who commits what is later deemed a criminal act cannot be prosecuted as there was no law at the time)?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm not familiar with that aspect of the case against Manson (or much else about him other than his followers killed a bunch of people) but wouldn't that be a case of Expost Facto? Don't criminals sentenced under one law remain sentenced even if the laws are rewritten and vice versa (ie one who commits what is later deemed a criminal act cannot be prosecuted as there was no law at the time)?

When the death penalty was rescinded in 1972 several inmates on death row had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, including Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, who had assassinated Robert Kennedy. When the death penalty was reinstated it was recognized that someone serving a life sentence could not be upgraded to death, even if that had been their former status.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Anderson
http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=48

[Penguin]

oh interesting, I thought that the decision from '72 put off all prisoners from death row who sat there at this time, a quasi-amnesty. This seems to be the case only in some states.