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New York State has a criminal statute making it illegal to knowingly interfere with the operation of government with malicious intent. Corry is a computer hacker, who shut down the New York government's website by infecting it with a virus. The virus entered the electronic mail of users and mailed itself to every address listed in each user's e-mail address book every two hours. The website was crippled for the last week of January. The state passed a law in February clarifying that knowingly infecting the state's internet server with a computer virus met the definition of interference in the statute. During the subsequent criminal trial against Corry in March, the state asked for a jury instruction based on the statutory computer virus clarification. The defense objects to the instruction. How should the state court judge rule?

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  1. Reject the instruction, based on ex post facto.
  2. Reject the instruction as a violation of due process.
  3. Admit the instruction, because the law was passed before the prosecution was initiated.
  4. Admit the instruction, as a bill of attainder.

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