Several States’ Attorneys General Try to Persuade 10th Circuit to Overturn Colorado Decision

Last August, a US District Court Judge found the Colorado Sex Offender Registration Act violated the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment. Colorado’s Attorney General, Cynthia Coffman, appealed the decision to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, attorneys general for the States of Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming filed an Amicus Brief in

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Federal Appellate Court (11th Cir.) requires distribution of CP to be knowing.

The Eleventh Circuit Federal Appellate Court (our circuit), reversed the conviction of a man who had been charged (and convicted) of distribution of child pornography, but upheld his possession count. The Defendant had been viewing child pornography he had downloaded from a peer-to-peer network, for a period of approximately eleven months before agents raided his home and confiscated his computer.

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Connecticut advocacy group challenges sex offender proximity ordinances.

Connecticut for One Standard Of Justice an organization, who like FAC, is a volunteer-based civil rights organization committed to ensuring that persons accused or convicted of sex offenses are treated constitutionally and fairly by the state, filed a lawsuit last week challenging the proximity ordinances in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The banishment zones, which prevent those on the registry from being present

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