The Dobbs Wire: Minnesota!

The Dobbs Wire:  Minnesota!  Great news out of Moose Lake, one of two spots where the scandalous Minnesota Sex Offense Program (MSOP) hums along and death is the easiest exit.  Hundreds of individuals who already paid the price (a prison sentence) for a sexual offense are forced to pay another price — locked up indefinitely for dubious ‘treatment’ that never

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Legal Update: Doe v. Swearingen II – New Complaint filed in Ex Post Facto Plus Case!

As promised, there is good news to report this week. To resolve the Statute of Limitations issue that caused Does v. Swearingen to be dismissed, Doe v. Swearingen II was filed today with a plaintiff who has no Statute of Limitation Issue. The Ex Post Facto Plus Challenge moves forward! The new complaint was filed in the Northern District of

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CA: West Covina is the latest city to have their residency restrictions taken down by ACSOL

The City of West Covina, California’s city council decided to repeal its Sex Offender Residency Restriction (SORR) rather than defend a losing lawsuit. The suit, brought last year by the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) challenged the law as unconstitutional – a fact the California Supreme Court had already decided previously and a fact that many other cities

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MN: High Court Weighs Boundaries of Sex Offender Self-Incrimination

The following is an important lesson for anybody on probation: A criminal case based on a sex offender’s statements in a treatment program highlights the state program’s murky line between therapeutic and investigative purposes. The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in the case of a man who claims sex-offense confessions made to his probation officer as part of a

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