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Law360 reports New York’s State Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault conviction “has reignited a decades-old legal debate around whether sexual assault prosecutions should be excluded from the rule against allowing propensity evidence in criminal cases, so as to aid juries assessing the plausibility of a defendant’s consent defense, or whether doing so could result in wrongful

By Sandy Rozek First published at narsol.org A 19-year-old Floridian charged with 30 counts of possession of child pornography deserves appropriate punishment but also needs a “specific target intervention focusing on dysfunctional internet use and sexually deviant arousal.”  “It is unlikely he will receive this type of intervention sentenced and incarcerated in the adult system in Florida.” Read Sandy’s article

Politicians tell us that they are making society safer with the registry and all the laws that go with it.  But in two cities in Tennessee, Clarksville and Nashville, that is proving not be the case. This year Clarksville, Tennessee, has seen a 37% increase in sexual assaults compared to last year, which seems to be the trend across the

A local political party in Wyoming has condemned the candidacy of a registered “sex offender.”  The offense occurred in 2002. The candidate states in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, “All I can do is show our community that people can grow and learn from the (choices) from their past and return to a regular law-abiding life.  I will always regret and

How can that be? Police would come to the house multiple times a day, harassing people after a family member was arrested. Sheriff Chris Naco of Pasco Co set out to reimagine policing in Pasco Co by adopting a controversial model for policing called predictive policing that was designed to stop crime before it even happened.  Predictive policing is harassing

When an article published in 2020 by the CATO Institute was sent to me, I was dubious about posting it as the title, “America’s Criminal Justice System Is Rotten to the Core,” sounded harsh.  Knowing that there are some people within the system who consciously follow the constitution, I did not want FAC to offend these particular people. Then I