Murder is committed at the time of a violent assault, not at the time of the victim’s death, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
The justices vacated and remanded the sentence of a man convicted of third-degree murder when his victim died 14 years after the attack, holding that a statute enacted after the attack was used in sentencing, in violation of the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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