Sex Offender Registry Found Unconstitutional

[Revoltingest]

In the news....
Judge Finds Colorado Sex Offender Registry Unconstitutional

Interesting & compelling argument by the judge.
Thoughts?

 

[Laika]

In the news....
Judge Finds Colorado Sex Offender Registry Unconstitutional

Interesting & compelling argument by the judge.
Thoughts?

I don't support vigilantes or mob justice, so I would have to agree that creating a searchable public data base with names, pictures and addresses is a breach of the rights of criminals. Nor is the principle of turning citizens into informers who watch convicted criminals conducive to a free society. Its the practice of a police state.

 

[BSM1]

In some states you could be classified as a sex offender if you are 18 and caught having consensual sex with your 17 year-old girlfriend the night before she turns 18. Although I have no love for true sex offenders, I do believe there is some gray area.

 

[Father Heathen]

In some states you could be classified as a sex offender if you are 18 and caught having consensual sex with your 17 year-old girlfriend the night before she turns 18. Although I have no love for true sex offenders, I do believe there is some gray area.

Apparently drunkenly urinating in an alley could land you on the registry, too. While unacceptable behavior, it doesn't belong anywhere near, much less in, the same basket as child rape.

 

[David1967]

In some states you could be classified as a sex offender if you are 18 and caught having consensual sex with your 17 year-old girlfriend the night before she turns 18. Although I have no love for true sex offenders, I do believe there is some gray area.

Good point.Its not a one size fits all solution. A person like you used as an example should not be classified the same as a child molester or rapist.

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't support vigilantes or mob justice, so I would have to agree that creating a searchable public data base with names, pictures and addresses is a breach of the rights of criminals. Nor is the principle of turning citizens into informers who watch convicted criminals conducive to a free society. Its the practice of a police state.

And it doesn't appear to even be useful.

 

[Brickjectivity]

What an obnoxious web site.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Here is the Denver post same article: Federal judge declares Colorado sex offender registration act is unconstitutional

Another unusual verdict by this judge: Judge makes lawyers pay for frivolity – The Denver Post

His Wikipedia entry:
Richard Paul Matsch - Wikipedia

 

[Revoltingest]

Another unusual verdict by this judge: Judge makes lawyers pay for frivolity – The Denver Post

His Wikipedia entry:
Richard Paul Matsch - Wikipedia

Bravo!
Now there is a judge which I'd like to see in any trial I'm involved in.

I see that the judge went to school at my alma mater, albeit a couple decades earlier.

 

[DavidFirth]

In the news....
Judge Finds Colorado Sex Offender Registry Unconstitutional

Interesting & compelling argument by the judge.
Thoughts?

The Apellate Court will overturn it. The Judge is wrong, in my opinion.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Apellate Court will overturn it. The Judge is wrong, in my opinion.

He sure seems smarter than the average judge!

 

[DavidFirth]

He sure seems smarter than the average judge!

Maybe.

 

[Revoltingest]

Maybe.

A judge who severely punishes lawyers for a frivolous law suit?
That guy deserves a statue....of himself!
(Let's hope he never owned slaves.)

 

[Father Heathen]

A judge who severely punishes lawyers for a frivolous law suit?
That guy deserves a statue....of himself!
(Let's hope he never owned slaves.)

There does need to be something in place to deter frivolous lawsuits.

 

[McBell]

In some states you could be classified as a sex offender if you are 18 and caught having consensual sex with your 17 year-old girlfriend the night before she turns 18. Although I have no love for true sex offenders, I do believe there is some gray area.

Except in the case you presented, the 18 is not a sex offender.

 

[BSM1]

Except in the case you presented, the 18 is not a sex offender.

Yes he is. He was of legal age and he had sex with a minor. This is not something I made up.

 

[McBell]

Yes he is. He was of legal age and he had sex with a minor. This is not something I made up.

My apologies.
I left out the IMO in my first post.

 

[McBell]

In the news....
Judge Finds Colorado Sex Offender Registry Unconstitutional

Interesting & compelling argument by the judge.
Thoughts?

So then the public records of all courthouses in the USA will have to be relooked at, right?
and the inmate listings,
and the local jail listings...

One wonders what impact this will have on the America Most Wanted lists....?

 

[Regolith Based Lifeforms]

I always extrapolate to the most extreme scenario to simplify and cut to the chase.
Ya all better figure out how you will manage in a society that permits consensual sex between adults and minors. Ya all go figure out how that's gonna work and don't bother getting back to me on it.
Don't call a suicide prevention hotline for me either.

 

[McBell]

I always extrapolate to the most extreme scenario to simplify and cut to the chase.
Ya all better figure out how you will manage in a society that permits consensual sex between adults and minors. Ya all go figure out how that's gonna work and don't bother getting back to me on it.
Don't call a suicide prevention hotline for me either.

Wow.
No one has even implied that the register being unconstitutional would make pedophilia legal.
That is one huge leap off the deep end.