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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 11-735

Citation
Section 11-735
Parent Document
Mendes v. Johnson, 389 A.2d 781 (1978)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1978-06-13

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[17] Although Blackstone is usually credited with the development of this approach to the retroactivity-prospectivity problem, a similar theory was advanced by another English scholar, Sir Matthew Hale, many years before the publication of Blackstone's works. Linkletter v. Walker, 381 U.S. 618, 623 n. 7, 85 S.Ct. 1731, 14 L.Ed.2d 601 (1965).