• A sex offender may be moving in next to you, and you dont need to know. (Supreme Court)
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[url=http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/4966855-Supreme-Court-Sex-offenders-can-challenge-arrest/] Source[/url] [quote]WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says rules requiring sex offenders to update their registration when crossing state lines don't automatically apply to those who committed their crimes before the law was passed. The high court ruled 7-2 that Billy Joe Reynolds can challenge his arrest for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Reynolds was sentenced to 18 month in prison for moving from Missouri to Pennsylvania and not registering as a sex offender in his new state. [B]He sued, saying this crime was before the registration act's rules were put into place. [/B]The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out his lawsuit. The high court overturned that decision. But Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented, saying the law applied to pre-Act offenders.[/quote] So all sex offenders that had been charged before 2006, do not need to re-register in their new state.
This is a good and bad thing. Considering how zero tolerance policy they are with how they give it out and all. But I would want to know if my neighbor was into stalking people.
I mean there are sex offenders, that are merely a 19 year old banging his 17 year old girlfriend. I think the system is fucking bullshit
Either they'll create a way to reign in very serious offenders, or there might be harsher penalties for repeat offenders if they commit another felony after their status expires. Hopefully they might have a way to reclassify types of sex offenders. For example, offenders who were 18-19 but had a girlfriend who was 17 probably don't need to be monitored the same way, although obviously it would need to if the person makes a conscious aim at 17-year olds.
i'll be concerned about a sex offender moving in next to me when the system doesn't consider a 7 year old boy who played doctor with a 7 year old girl a "sex offender"
I would like to know if they are and what exactly they did. If they did as the person above as said I could honestly care less.
The whole sex offender white/black thing is bullshit, I mean there are sex offenders, and then there are[I] sex offenders[/I].
the least they could do is take the legitimate sex offenders and call them "super duper sex offenders" or something so people will actually know what they're dealing with
[QUOTE=Septimas;34367390]I mean there are sex offenders, that are merely a 19 year old banging his 17 year old girlfriend. I think the system is fucking bullshit[/QUOTE] The system IS bullshit.
Why would there be problems with a sex offender, but not a burglar or a murderer?
Damn, now I won't know if my neighbour is okay with my collection
"Sex offender" includes people who urinate in public and couples who do it when the age difference is as small as two years. The "sex offender registration" does absolutely nothing and is a bullshit feel-good law politicians talk about to win votes.
We should just make a new law. All sex offenders must inform neighbors of their situation in the following way: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/t3Op7.png[/IMG] [editline]23rd January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Sector 7;34367788]"Sex offender" includes people who urinate in public and couples who do it when the age difference is as small as two years. The "sex offender registration" does absolutely nothing and is a bullshit feel-good law politicians talk about to win votes.[/QUOTE] The public urination thing is because some actual sex offenders would use that to try and bullshit their way out of punishment.
I honestly don't care if a sex offender lives next to me.
The whole systems needs an overhaul.
It's far better that sex offenders are left alone to rehabilitate and build a new life than to have the prospect of pointless vigilante justice. Problem with this though, is that it's not a sweeping law that establishes a system, this is merely a legal work around for a few offenders that doesn't really achieve much. Not great news.
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