Jury Reluctant to Convict Man Accused of Murdering Sex Offender

Tarpon Springs Sylvester Johnson, 61, was charged with stabbing his neighbor, Bill Casey, 75, at their Tarpon Springs mobile home park. Casey, a Registered Sex Offender was brutally murdered in his home. Both were residents at the Palace Mobile Home Park at 2500 54th Ave. N., where over 125 sex offenders live. Blood stains and the suspect’s bloody fingerprint were

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Time Magazine: Life Inside a Community of Sex Offenders

Along southern Florida’s Muck City Road, southeast of the state’s massive Lake Okeechobee and hidden among hundreds of acres of sugar cane, sits Miracle Village, pop: approximately 150. For decades, its tiny one-story residences housed migrants who worked the nearby sugar fields. Today, they house migrants of a different sort. Most of its residents are convicted sex offenders. Sofia Valiente,

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A Call To Action: The Second Chance Reauthorization Act

Please call members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Senate Bill 1690 The Second Chance Reauthorization Act.   This bill is scheduled for hearing in the Judiciary Committee this Thursday, September 19, 2014.   S 1690 will increase public safety because it provides for programs whose goals are to break the cycle of criminals reoffending after they return

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Kansas Supreme Court Hear Arguments on Constitutionality of Registry.

Source TOPEKA, Kansas — The attorney for a convicted child molester on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of the Kansas offender registry before the state’s highest court, arguing social media has made the Internet the new town square for public shaming. Attorney Christopher Joseph urged the Kansas Supreme Court to uphold a decision by Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks that removed

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