@JoeM

The break down in Texas goes something like this. The charge is tied to the AWA guidelines which took place in 2006. If the charge falls under the AWA 10 year or 25 year or lifetime requirement, that is the maximum the state can give the defendant. However it is kind of murky. I was given 10 year Deferred Adjudication Probation in 2004 for a charge of Agg Sex assault of a Child. First degree felony in Texas. Normally carries a 20 to life sentence. I completed probation in 2014 and proceedings were dismissed. No conviction under my plea deal. I am listed as low risk, tier 1, but, have to register lifetime. I am still rather confused with this. No conviction but must still register lifetime. This is the case with many people here in Texas. I wonder if there is any avenue for removal except for the bogus plan the state currently has in place which is basically useless. Any ideas?

Well Will

At least I have some comfort that it wasn’t just me having these constant add ons to the registry applied to me. Every day I wake up, I would if this will be the day that they change their minds. And with a new law, just like that, you are violated Ex Post Facto style.

What about the fact you be a house during the day while school is in session; yet you have to leave when it gets dark? How many students under 18 take night classes? These lawmakers aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed; yet believe they are rockstars.

What they did to you is not just wrong. It is criminal.

joeM

30 years since my slip up. 29 years since I was arrested. 28 years since I was sentenced. Got released in 1997. Went through several appeals and finally won in 2003, getting off probation 6 years early.
Keep having new rules applied and someone got stuck with the Life time registry without a chance of some pie or cake.

But didn’t a Texas courts say that the State of Texas could not put anyone on the registry for longer than the AWA says? LOt of people are on for life if we go by the AWA requirements, but I do bleive that this court said that for the 10 and 25 year registrants, it was 10 or 25 after either the offense or conviction NOT after end of sanctions.

Funny how having sexual contact with a minor has tradtioanlly been a strict liability offesnse in many jurisdictions. Knowledge is not an issue Doesn’t matter if the child had a fake ID or misrepresented their age. YOU are guilty. So shouldn’t it also work that if the “victim” is not actually a child, then there can be no crime as a matter of law? Nope. Why not? Because we said so.

Brandon

Yup I was a cop back in the 1880. I look good for my age haha
Back then they walked a beat and had just wooden Billy clubs. The big cities had cops but the smaller towns had Sheriff’s . Some smaller towns had citizen vigilantes who protected the town because they were too poor to pay for a Sheriff.
Very few crimes were solved back then. And very few cases went to trial. You spent some time in the local jail or if the crime was bad enough, you got “hanged by the neck until dead” in a public forum.
They sort of had a registry back then. They would hang flyers called “Wanted” posters all over town for the people to be on the look out for you. Some of them read “Reward, Wanted Dead or alive”. Years later that would become a Bon Jovi Song 🙂

JoeM

And technically, No crime was committed. They did not meet children, they met adult law enforcement. regardless of their ill gotten intentions, there never was a child they were talking to.

This was decided years ago with drugs. So many cases were tossed at trial when the defense tested the “Cocaine” and it turned out to be flour or powdered sugar etc. Officers had to start using previously confiscated actual drugs in their stings so the charges would stick.

But again, with “Sex” everyone goes ewwwww, and a magic wand is waved and it is ok to “Fake” a sting for the safety of the fake children. Am I saying kids don’t need to be protected? NO I am not saying that. Were some of these guys pervs and deserved to be locked up? That is not for me to decide. At least I was arrested for something I actually did and not something I “Thought I was going to do”. (Well other than the add on BS charges they threw on to my case to pad the evidence)

Characters by day, lurking online at night. Is this first time a employee of Disney has been arrested? Wonder the PR nightmare going on there now. Even if Disney World would change their policy I still wouldn’t step foot in Florida. Not one of them was in the registry, so how’s that protecting children in Florida. Florida come on vacation, leave on registration should be the state motto.