6th Circuit Upholds Lifetime Registration
The Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision that found lifetime registration for sexual predators in Ohio unconstitutional. The Appellate court ruled that, “because Doe’s registration requirement stems from the determination of her likelihood of reoffending at the time of her classification hearing and is not dependent on her current dangerousness, she has no procedural due process right to a reclassification hearing. Further, the wisdom of Ohio’s decision to make the determination of a sexual offender’s future dangerousness permanent is not subject to a procedural due process challenge.”
In essence – the ruling says a person’s “dangerousness” can be determined at the time of their sentencing, with the person never entitled to challenge their present dangerousness. It doesn’t matter if decades pass without re-offending, it doesn’t matter if the person is in a coma. Once determined to be a predator – they will always be without any right to prove they have changed.
This is simply another ruling that goes contrary to scientific research (see: High Risk May Not Be High Risk Forever) and seeks to keep people on the registry in the name of “public safety” even if they can demonstrate they are no longer a risk to the public.
It’s time for the courts to wake up.
The order is below.
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Does anyone know if that is the end of it? Can anything about this be changed or appealed? Or does The Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit have the final say?
They can appeal to the Supreme Court.
The words “America” and “justice” should never be used together as they are mutually exclusive unless used in a sentence such as: “There is no actual justice in America.”
This shows without any doubt that the sex offender registry is a death sentence since those placed on it not only have no chance of getting off of it while alive (death being the only way to be de-listed) but also a very real social death sentence as well.
America has always been a land of oppression. It’s just not Politically Correct to abuse most racial or sexual minorities so they have created a new second class of American untouchables they have labelled as “sex offenders” because sex is taboo in sexually repressed conservative America. This class can be abused endlessly (even killed with their address published for easier targeting) and can be blamed for all of societies problems (this is a political trick taken directly from the Nazis handbook.)
Facts and reality have never been valued in this god fearing country. Fear, greed, and superstitious stupidity are the only motives used in making policy in the United States.
The Sex Offender registry is a business. Some enterprising women have found a way to cash in! Imagine if you are a woman living in a poor county in Wisconsin on the border of wealthy Lake County Illinois and you find that Lake County Illinois has the highest conviction payouts for wrongfully convicted people. Logically with Lake County Illinois having such a high conviction rate you can find men without the means to defend themselves and allow your “sex offender” friend you met at the fetish club on “Adult Little Girl Night” to use your new Lake County Illinois “boyfriend’s” computer. Having your boyfriend go to prison sure takes the pressure off in case he has a change of heart and has you convicted of the assault charges in Wisconsin, Illinois or Ohio or in case he has you investigated for the time you threw him out of a car in Wisconsin!
https://fox6now.com/2013/01/24/woman-charged-in-incident-involving-live-in-boyfriend-with-brain-injury/
And how did the live in boyfriend GET the brain injury?
https://journaltimes.com/news/local/racine-man-in-critical-condition-after-leaping-from-moving-vehicle/article_33cbac0e-1ac1-11e1-ab61-001cc4c03286.html
The clues are in the “fox6” article. Two men have “disappeared”. These are men who refused to allow their sons to be sold to the same-sex couple she sold her daughter to. Their reward? Sex offender registry! Physical abuse with life threatening injuries! Theft of $25,000 worth of property each! (It is okay to steal from and assault “sex offenders”. No one will stop you!)
With the payments for selling one of your children and the $25,000 payouts from “acquiring” all of your last two ‘boyfriends’ assets you can live comfortably in a five bedroom home. Uncle Sam will never question what you can afford with no income! You can continue to drive the car you took from the brain injured man you pushed out of the car as long as you keep forging his name on the registration. You can drive the car despite being legally blind as a Wisconsin resident as long as you have a bogus Illinois address to use with your “bribes for license Illinois driver’s license”. You can be caught with property reported stolen from the next victim and the police will never investigate further! Once you report your boyfriend as a “sex offender” you can live the good life!
It is okay to comment if you are a lawyer and actually WANT to investigate these truths or if you are a film-maker and you would like me to present the evidence of this outrageous, real life “Gone Girl” story!
Regarding the post above: The woman fabricating stories to get men on the sex-offender status is a victim of childhood sexual trauma. Since she couldn’t retaliate against her actual abuser, any man will do. It is like the Alanis Morissette song, “You Ought to Know” the lyric is: “And every time I scratch my nails down someone else’s back I hope you feel it. Well, can you feel it?” She is not to be hated. The prosecutors exploiting her pain should be.
People have such hate for “sex offenders” because they are angry of abuse that happened to them, yet a “sex offender” may be someone taking the fall for their teenage son whose classmate sent a nude picture of herself, or a woman arrested at a “Free the Nipple” rally.
Regarding the post below from Barbara Hubbell: People CAN change. They need a support network though. Our government needs to step in and insure that sex-offenders DO have access to social media. Facebook hides behind this “we are a private company” BS line and at the same time allow government agencies to maintain Facebook pages. If Facebook does not honor the Packingham decision, government agencies have no business posting on Facebook!
What if the solution to the Stoneman Douglas shooting was to insure teachers and parents step in to provide the tools for all students to have successful social relationships? I know someone who was kind of an odd kid. This friend admitted that in 1st grade, the teacher assigned her a friend, since she had none. What if Nikolas Jacob Cruz had a friend to talk him out of shooting up the school? Nikolas was expelled from school. No one came to his rescue when his mother died. The shooting occurred just 3 months after her death! Perhaps Nikolas’ only friend was his mother and without her, he felt he had nothing to live for and since the school expelled him he felt no one in the school cared about him, so why should he care about anyone in the school?
So the recipe to create a shooter is to alienate him from the rest of society. Expel him from school or work (so he has no one to talk him out of doing the shooting) and do not give any social support like Facebook friends. You all do realize that the experiment in placing all of those “sex offenders” under the Julia Tuttle Causeway bridge is to see how how much hate the rest of society can throw at them before they start shooting up Florida! Currently, sex-offenders rarely re-offend. However, Florida’s experiment is to make these men more and more miserable until they SNAP! My suggestion is NOT to treat these people with hate because they will likely learn to hate you back. If this happens, will you be safe?
People change, they can be better than they once were. If we continue to punish these offenders saying that it doesn’t matter if they do change, why not all persons who have been convicted of any crime?
I am going to play the villain here. I am truly glad to start seeing woman being place on sexual offender registry. Not all so call victims are victims. They lie about their ages..I am going to have a great day because finally The broken Judicial system is labeling woman sexual predators. Let them taste what I had taste for 30 yrs. Life time registry is nothing compare to what I endure. I was nineteen now almost forty-nine. A very long time of pain,hardships,loss of family and being punished for other people sexual crimes by being caught up in the web some of them are either dead or life sentences. I am going to agree with the court just once she needs to be on it for life. let woman join the “Membership club” and have a target on their backs too
Sadly I dont think it will ever change for the good,only get worse. With lifetime for us, that’s a 90% guarantee for them that they will always make money from us. 100% if every county makes you pay to visit to register, and with it all being public and they know the discrimination and danger to all two, I believe the intent is to get us killed or sent back to prison where they make more money.i used to have faith in our government many years ago and when I got arrested even had an application to be a sheriff’s officer, but this made me wake up and finally see things in which they truly are and it saddens me that our country has become this way.
So the court is not exactly saying that dangerousness cannot change. On that question, it remains mostly silent.
Instead, it seems to be saying, if we want reformed offenders to have a right to reclassification, then there must be an act by the legislature.
Which I think will only happen once Ohio law enforcement agencies are up to their eyeballs tracking elderly people who last offended in their youth. They will have to go the way of California, that is, and enact legislative changes.