In a startling turn of events, a three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals rejected many years of its own precedents on June 20 when it ruled in People of the State of Colorado, In the Interest of T.B., Juvenile, 2019 WL 2528764, that imposing a lifetime sex offender registration requirement on a young person whose sex-related crimes were committed when he was a minor is a form of punishment, so before imposing … <Read More>
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Federal Court Says Old Sodomy Conviction Cannot Be Basis for Current Sex Offender Registration Requirement
Finding that prosecuting a man for failing to register as a sex offender on the basis of an old conviction under an unconstitutional sodomy law would be “unthinkable,” U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg granted a writ of habeas corpus to Charlton Green on December 9, directing that the State of Georgia release him from the obligations of probation to which he had been sentence.
Green, then age 20, and three friends, another young guy and … <Read More>