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In a victory for fundamental fairness, the New Hampshire Supreme Court held today that New Hampshire’s law requiring the registration of certain criminal offenders is unconstitutional as applied to an ACLU client because the law retroactively imposes lifetime restrictions on individuals who were convicted before these lifetime restrictions were enacted.  The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of

A convicted sex offender can spend his $3 million Florida lottery winnings any way he wants, over the protestations of two of his alleged victims, a judge ruled Friday. Timothy Poole won the Florida Super Millions scratch-off lottery in December, taking home a lump sum of $2.2 million. Two brothers are suing Poole for psychological damages after they say he

TAMPA — As a convicted sex offender, Antonio Rodriguez Rivera was ordered to live in a small parking lot on Channelside Drive. Rivera, who had been prosecuted for impregnating his 14-year-old girlfriend when he was 23, was sentenced to community control and probation. For refusing to stay for more than a few weeks in the empty lot, Rivera, 27, was

PAHOKEE, Florida (WTLV) — Stuck like a sandspur to the eastern edge of Lake Okeechobee and surrounded by thousands of acres of sugar cane, Pahokee is about as remote as Florida gets. It’s a town defined by farming, religion and poverty — the trifecta of Florida agricultural life – and it feels, says resident Chad Stoffel, like “the middle of

The following is a repost of an article in Cincinnati.com that was significant to share here.   The eighth-grade boy and his seventh-grade girlfriend had been dating about 1½ years when they decided to have sex, which they did twice at her house when nobody was home. The boy, 15, also texted two nude pictures of himself to the girl,

This article reminds us that serious consequences come for failing to register. The offender committed his offense in 1997, almost 20 years ago, but now is being held in jail without bond and facing much more prison time. Not for a new sex offense, but for failing to register. Remember… Failing to register carries a severe penalty.