South Carolina Supreme Court rules that lifetime placement on the sex offender registry is unconstitutional

The S.C. Supreme Court has ruled the state’s lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender is unconstitutional and those who demonstrate a low risk of re offending may have their names purged with a judge’s permission.

You can read the Court’s opinion here: https://www.sccourts.org/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28033.pdf

https://law.justia.com/cases/south-carolina/supreme-court/2021/28033.html

Watch oral arguments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTPq69kGgiE

 

 


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60 thoughts on “South Carolina Supreme Court rules that lifetime placement on the sex offender registry is unconstitutional

  • June 15, 2021

    So South Carolina has finely found this registry is Unconstitutional. Guess it takes a space race to find out that truth is truth and justice is justice. I’m sure its the hope of all the USA to find out these sex registries are Unconstitutional. So is telling a lie than Constitutional? Who is accusing who in much of this deceptive game . Well if you didn’t come down to meet than we were coming to get you.

    Would one say that would be unjustifiable in many ways or were are the precepts or the Commandments were these ordeals lay. Should we all go back to a pool hustler movie ” The hustler” or who is hustling who in many of these registry issues. Blind justice, vain justice, or intimidating justice call it what one wants but in reality nobody seems to look at the truth right in front of their nose in this registry type of propaganda of injustice.

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  • June 10, 2021

    You know what is missing from this news? TV coverage. What – not sensational enough now? Not news-worthy? Oh that’s right – don’t want to cover something you’ll have to explain to the ignorant unwashed masses.

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    • June 11, 2021

      Great point, Rick!

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