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A 2017 California law that reducing mandatory penalties for youthful offenders applied to all crimes, including non-capital murders, except for violent sex offenses. That law was challenged and an appellate court struck it down. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Although sex crimes can be horrific and worthy of severe punishment, “there is no crime as horrible as intentional first-degree

The prosecution has filed their Information against Ron Book in his DUI case. Notably absent is one of the charges (refusing to submit to a breathalyzer), which the State Attorney chose not to bring because of “lack of evidence”. In Florida, refusing to blow is a mandatory license suspension. Since refusing to submit to the test is pretty clear cut,

A member in Volusia County recently received a call from his Sheriff’s office. After reading about the scams online, he called back and was told that they wanted him to come in and give another DNA sample. Has this happened to anyone else? Another member wanted to tell other FAC members that he was successfully hired by Shipt.com, who is

A father and son from Freemansburg accused of harassing the family of a sex offender are headed to Northampton County Court on their respective criminal charges. James Forte Sr. and James Forte Jr., who both live in 200 block of Juniata Street in the borough, had their preliminary hearings Tuesday in front of District Judge Nicholas Englesson. Following testimony from

Two years ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shook up long-settled orthodoxy by ruling that the state’s sex offender registration law, otherwise known as SORNA (Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act) was punishment. The case, Commonwealth v. Muniz, 164 A.3d 1189 (Pa. 2018), presented the Court with two questions: whether people who committed their crimes before the adoption of the law could

Under the Florida Office of Executive Clemency, an ex-offender who has “completed all sentences imposed and all conditions of supervision have expired or been completed, for a period of no less than 8 years” may apply for authority to own, possess or use a firearm. In addition to waiting 8 years, “[y]ou may not have any outstanding detainers or pending