IL Supreme Court OK’s Banning Registrants from Parks
The Illinois Supreme Court issued a horrible opinion, upholding the ban on predators and “child sex offenders” from parks. You can read the full opinion here: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SexOffendersIL.pdf
The crux of the opinion is that the state’s ban on sex offenders from parks (which an appellate court previously found unconstitutional) was found to be constitutional and the same “frightening and high” myth that has been prevalent in other bad decisions has permeated this one too. Although the Court acknowledged that empirical science has debunked these myths, it found that the legislature is more appropriate to interpret those studies than a court. VERY BAD!
The only saving grace is that the Supreme Court allowed the case to be remanded to the appellate court for consideration of an Ex Post Facto challenge. Let’s hope something can still come out of this.
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This why for the last four or five years we have posted many articles about the low re-offense rate not only that but the fact that of the new sex crimes people on the registry are only involved in less than 1% of those. that means that 99%+ of the new sex crimes are done by people not on the registry and of people on the registry 99%+ don’t reoffend. it’s also why in a number of my articles I have said that no matter how insignificant the re-offense rates may seem to the case, they need to be nonetheless be brought out. This is a good example of why that needs to happen.
Reoffence rate articles:
http://sosen.org/blog/2017/06/18/destroyed-families-destroyed-lives-all-because-of-a-lie-2.html
http://sosen.org/blog/2017/09/16/what-is-a-valid-evaluation-or-study-of-recidivism.html
http://sosen.org/blog/2017/06/26/so-why-are-the-reconviction-rates-so-important-2.html
http://sosen.org/blog/2017/06/23/simple-question-2.html
http://sosen.org/blog/2017/06/21/who-really-commits-new-sex-crimes-2.html
so what happens right now well from my point of view it is Time to File a Petition for WRIT of ERROR CORAM NOBIS because the Supreme Court of Illinois based their decision upon false information and because of that their decision cannot stand.
I addressed this very issue in an article that I wrote about Smith versus doe in June of 2015 http://sosen.org/blog/2015/06/17/time-to-file-a-petition-for-writ-of-error-coram-nobis-in-smith-v-doe.html and I and others have written enough articles about the low re-offense rate with statistics and data that any competent lawyer should be able to stand before a judge and disprove the state’s claim of high re-offense rates and if there is no high re-offense rate there is no public safety issue.