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It is hard to describe how important the Supreme Court decision last week in Gundy v. United States is. In one sense, nothing changed—no case was overturned, no new law was made, and Mr. Gundy is still going to jail. But in another way, the Gundy ruling suggests that the way our government works will…

Case Law director 07/01/2019 @ 22:51

Law allowing no exceptions to sex offender registration is unconstitutional, Alaska Supreme Court rules

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s sex offender registry law violates offenders’ right to due process. In an opinion handed down Friday, the court — voting 3-2 — found the law requiring all offenders to register unconstitutional, unless offenders are first given the opportunity to demonstrate they aren’t a danger to the…

Case Law director 06/21/2019 @ 18:20

S18A1211. PARK v. THE STATE. MELTON Chief Justice

S18A1211. PARK v. THE STATE. MELTON, Chief Justice. We granted an interlocutory appeal in this case to address Joseph Park’s facial challenge to the constitutionality of OCGA § 42-1-14, which requires, among other things, that a person who is classified as a sexually dangerous predator – but who is no longer in State custody or…

Case Law director 03/18/2019 @ 18:10

Earnest Leap Exoneration

On December 1, 1989, 5-year-old Brodie Leap, in response to repeated questioning by his mother, said that his father, 31-year-old Earnest Leap, had fondled his genitals. The accusation came about three months after Earnest and the boy’s mother had finalized their divorce and Earnest was given primary custody of Brodie and his brother, Josh. In…

Case Law, Family Factors director 01/07/2018 @ 21:12

An Analysis of Child Sex Crime Rates on Halloween

States, municipalities, and parole departments have adopted policies banning known sex offenders from Halloween activities, based on the worry that there is unusual risk on these days. The existence of this risk has not been empirically established. National Incident-Base Reporting System crime report data from 1997 through 2005 were used to examine daily population adjusted…

Education, Public View, Recidivism director 10/09/2017 @ 19:56

No Automatic Disbarment for Child Sex Offenses, Court Rules

In a ruling that ethics attorneys say is not as startling as it might appear, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday indefinitely suspended two lawyers and disbarred a third for sex offenses involving children, but stopped short of issuing a bright-line disbarment rule in such cases. In a 6-1 ruling, the majority declined to…

Case Law director 05/25/2017 @ 15:20

Exonerations by Contributing Factor and Type of Crime

The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at University of California Irvine, the University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry…

Public View director 04/20/2017 @ 20:52

Court agrees some North Carolina sex offender limits unlawful

RALEIGH, N.C –A federal appeals court has upheld lower court rulings that found portions of North Carolina law restricting where registered sex offenders can gather are unconstitutional because they’re overly broad or vague.  A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday affirmed the federal lower court decisions, which the state…

Public View director 12/03/2016 @ 19:26

Unique identifier provision of IML

Forward From: RegistrantTAG.org To: ALL We are reaching out to all and affiliates to respond the recent State Department notice on implementation of the unique identifier provision of IML. https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-21087.pdf https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-09-02/html/2016-21087.htm It was signed by: Bureau of Councilor Affairs Sen   Senior Advisor David T Donahue 6826     202-647-9584 We request emails, faxes, phone calls…

Family Factors, Public View director 09/10/2016 @ 13:49

Time to Revisit Sex Offender Supervision for Life

In the mid-1990s, Americans were shocked by several high-profile child victim sex offenses. In New Jersey, the abduction, rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka by a paroled sex offender who lived across the street horrified the state and spurred action by elected officials and state agencies. In less than four months (warp speed for…

Public View director 06/02/2016 @ 08:09

Financial Aid Eligibility for People with Felonies

There is a misconception that no ex-offenders are eligible for financial aid. In fact, many people with felony convictions can receive financial aid but don’t apply. They miss their chance to go to college based on wrong information. The first step to getting federal financial aid is to fill out the Free Application for Federal…

Education director 03/18/2016 @ 10:40

Facts and Fiction about Sex Offenders

The political outlash against sex offenders is immense, irrational, and hard for legislators to reverse. Sarah Agudo in the Northwestern University Law Review, 2008 Myth: Sex offenders are dirty old strangers who steal kids from playgrounds   An Ohio prison intake report on sex offenders imprisoned in 1992 revealed that 2.2 percent of child molesters…

Public View director 12/26/2015 @ 00:21

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Initial RegNet Tips on Writing

Please keep all your content un-biased and refrain from discourse that may harm anyone, including a public member of the Justice as well as a private family member. Hope this venue helps you to become a voice of reason in  the crowd of many uneducated and many who are. For ideas on how to format…

Family Factors director 12/25/2015 @ 17:57