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Jan 26, 2025 criminal law statutory rape adoption ex post facto supreme court

Rape and Adoption: When Retroactive Laws Cannot Elevate a Conviction

A Supreme Court ruling clarifies why a 2012 rape involving an adopted child could not be elevated to qualified rape under a later law.