More Clarification on Double Jeopardy challenges in solicitation cases

In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court decided State v. Shelley, which held that double jeopardy prohibits separate convictions based on the same solicitation conduct. Multiple charges for the same course of illegal conduct were considered double Jeopardy. To over-simplify; soliciting a minor and traveling to meet a minor are two separate crimes, but to be convicted of both, you need

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Windsor Locks, CT to vote on repealing sex offender proximity ordinance

A year after Connecticut for One Standard of Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of accused and convicted persons required to register as sex offenders, filed a lawsuit against the town, Windsor Locks is considering repealing a proximity ordinance that bans persons required to register as sex offender from entering “child safety zones,” which include the areas of

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