The Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the 2014 Amended Sentencing Act only applies prospectively, denying the request of an offender sentenced under the old law to have his sentences revisited, in a case implicating criminal justice reinvestment policies that have been a major public policy topic in the First State.
In Fountain v. State, Martin E. Fountain, sentenced in 2003 to serve two consecutive drug sentences, argued the 2014 law should apply retroactively because the amendment was remedial in nature and such an interpretation was consistent with Delaware’s ongoing criminal justice reform efforts.
