A Federal Judge Says the DOJ’s Sex Offender Registration Rules Violate Due Process by Requiring the Impossible
The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened to prosecute people for failing to register even when their state no longer requires nor allows them to do so.
According to Reason.com, “Someone who fails to meet these requirements and travels outside his state can be charged with a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. At trial, the defendant has the burden of proving that he was unable to register as required by the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).”
A federal judge in California has ruled that this violates the constitutional right to due process.
U.S. District Judge Jesus G. Bernal wrote, the Justice Department “has done exactly what is forbidden by the Constitution: ‘to declare an individual guilty or presumptively guilty of a crime.’” Bernal continues, saying that the Department of Justice “subverts the procedural safeguards deeply rooted in our history and constitutional framework.”
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) joined this lawsuit. Thank you, Janice Bellucci.
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I have not received any updates or posts since Jan 31st. Is everything ok?
More Law enforcement doing what they want to do and not what they should do. More good ole boy, bag em and tag em mentality, Even if they are not on the wanted list. Lawsuit pending.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/brevard-county-sheriff-sued-for-wheel-of-fugitive-defamation/ar-AA16UOTT?pc=U531&cvid=1177f242e0824d6b925f37181e2523b8
Logue is everywhere, I can tell by his writing style. Glad to still have you here, Derek.
That’s not me. I’m me. I think. Hard to tell these days.
Yeeeeeah. It don’t matter. I’ve wrote responses and answers to my own replies. It’s all about spreading knowledge.
The registry fails yet again:
https://www.wesh.com/article/tillis-pest-control-molestation/42672853
For Cherokee Jack and everyone else instead of scrolling down and I put my answer here. The way to fight this is the way that nobody wants to come out of the Shadows man up be honest and hold them accountable for the same so-called Republican values of individual rights and doing your time and constitutional principles and all the rest. Don’t block intersections show up in the state house and fill the gallery fill the floor protest directly gathered together and go door to door during elections and educate the public about what they do to people and how unjust and unfair it is how low the recidivism rate is and all the rest. But all they do is yak and complain and that won’t get you anywhere
I will be coming out of the shadows as you say. This week I have meeting with authorities to bring out a very big injustice that has been done. It is why I’m trying to contact anyone who lived in Lee County during the time that Sgt. Booth ruled over us. I need to see if she told anyone else to move out of her state. Yeah, She had to get me to move because I was not to be on the public side of the registry an they did. She doesn’t know who she messed with, I’m a NJ Retroactive, B52, Tier Level 1 sex offender. It may not make sense to you but they are screaming thier laws are constitutional. Issue is you can’t enforce constitutional on people who were convicted before the laws. The State of NJ was able to place people retroactive under the civil side with “Due Process” That is the Tier Level 1 Not for public notification. 24 years because of the threats of punishing me to the fullest extent of her laws. right after she said a list of new laws of 3rd degree felonies. If I didn’t like it MOVE OUT OF MY STATE… Yep, she sure did say that. It’s not the laws we need to go after it’s these deputies who get a wild hair an then they take the authority to their heads an add punishment.
It’s not just Republican law makers, Democrats have screwed us too. They are all politicians.
City of Debary that has been in the news in the past for strict sex offender ordinances, just had one of their former council members get arrested for sex crimes. Irony.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-debary-councilman-one-of-two-volusia-county-men-charged-with-child-sex-abuse/ar-AA16MivV?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=78fe3e8c36a2455cbe4cce0603d7e97f
I would like to know whether this councilman ever voted in favor of a sex offender ordinance.
Jacob
That my friend, I cannot answer. I know as much as the article printed depending on how much coffee I had the day I posted this LOL
should be a public record
Check out another article linked in this one re: the “one man cyber cop.” Basic fluff piece patting the guy’s back for his ability to text like a teenage girl. I dropped a comment, but doubt it’ll be there long.
I just added a comment to your comment. I’m sure we hear from the yahoos soon.