<p dir="ltr">On Oct 6, 2014 9:53 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> In the US legal system (and probably all the others that matter) if the penalty for a crime increases after the crime has been committed, the perp is penalized under the previous system, when the crime was actually committed. This legal concept is known by the Latin phrase ex post facto, after the fact.<br>
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> What if some technology is invented which causes a crime to be detectable, long after it is committed, such that the probability of being caught rises dramatically?</p>
<p dir="ltr">The same thing that happens if evidence turns up for non-technological reasons. There is a statute of limitations on most crimes, and none on others, to deal with this type of situation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The law does not excuse cases just because the probability of being caught seemed low at the time.</p>