By Michael Booth . . . The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday held 2014 amendments to Megan’s Law enhancing certain penalties for sex offenders who violate parole requirements unenforceable against four defendants based on the ex post facto clauses of both the state and
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We are graciously joined by Lea Bickerton, a practicing attorney in the Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania area. Lea is with the firm Bickerton & Bickerton, Attorneys at Law. @bickertonlaw on Twitter https://twitter.com/bickertonlaw These are the issues we discuss this session: https://www.cato.org/blog/convicted-violating-law-does-not-exist https://www.wpr.org/node/1277756 http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/23/lifetime-gps-tacking-is-not-punishment-s https://jenniferkamorowski.net/2018/05/19/polygraph-testing-and-treatment-of-sexual-offenders/
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By Michael M. . . . Imagine what it would be like to be Jason Schoenfeld, a disabled military veteran who was convicted of aggravated assault of a child, sent to prison for 18 years, and then released at the end of
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As have done politicians before him, Sheriff Manny Gonzales of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, is using the tactic of creating fear in the public in his bid for reelection. He has created a campaign ad showing individuals on the New Mexico sexual offense
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Larry and Andy talk about the week’s issues as well as listener questions and comments. Utah sex offender laws are draconian. https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/cobb_campaign_aide_resigns_aft.html http://www.sj-r.com/zz/news/20180513/why-sex-offenders-in-missouri-dont-stick-around-long http://www.abc27.com/investigators/investigations/sex-offender-i-am-not-a-monster-/1180788860 https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/may/15/ex-offender-registries-common-sense-or-nonsense/ https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/05/16/luke-heimlich-oregon-state https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/16/wisconsin-supreme-court-urged-push-lawmakers-defense-lawyer-pay/616110002/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/republicans-democrats-judicial-nominations.html https://www.vox.com/2016/7/5/12059448/sex-offender-registry Why GPS monitoring should be 1 of the 7 deadly sins A malfunction
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By Sandy . . . The sex offender registry is a non-punitive civil regulatory scheme. Keep that in mind. Keep repeating it. A non-punitive civil regulatory scheme. Civil, not criminal. The requirement to register is triggered by a criminal conviction, both felonies
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By AVNet News . . . This is a very thorough and well documented discussion of why the general opinion of sex offender re-offense is that it is high and then an equally thorough and well documented elaboration showing it is not.
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By Guy Hamilton-Smith . . . Ryan is the hardest part of my story to explain. We have never met, nor will we, and yet he radically changed the course of my life. The path that I’ve walked since law school was
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By Cyrus Farivar . . . Two alleged owners of Mugshots.com—Sahar Sarid and Thomas Keesee—have been arrested in south Florida on a recently issued California warrant. The notorious website publishes mugshots and then demands payment for their removal. On Wednesday, the attorney general of California brought criminal charges
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By Sandy . . . If every shred of evidence showed that traffic lights, while costing large amounts of resources to install, did nothing to decrease auto accidents and actually created a host of undesirable consequences, would cities still install them at every
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