Stogner v. California

Stogner v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 31, 2003 Decided June 26, 2003
Full case name	Marion Reynolds Stogner v. California
Citations	539 U.S. 607 (more) 123 S. Ct. 2446; 156 L. Ed. 2d 544
Case history
Prior	Stogner v. Superior Court of Contra Costa County, 93 Cal. App. 4th 1229, 114 Cal. Rptr. 2d 37 (App. 1st Dist. 2001); cert. granted, 537 U.S. 1043 (2002).
Holding
A law enacted after expiration of a previously applicable limitations period violates the ex post facto clause when it is applied to revive a previously time-barred prosecution.[1]
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg
Dissent	Kennedy, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 9; U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that California's retroactive extension of the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law.^[2]