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As they should

If only it would work that way. In truth they will drag their feet and allow that vigilantes to get off with a slap on the wrist for battery upon the registered. The more common it becomes the more normalized it becomes and the more danger the registrants are in.
I do concur that you shouldn’t have to worry about it if you do not commit a crime however we also know that to be false. I see in the future entire prisons with registrants in them for life because they failed to complete a single registry requirement.

It’s all very simple..No crime ?No Time. Do not put blame on FAC, doing their work

Punitive laws enjoy Constitutional protection and since the death penalty is the ultimate punishment that means they cannot be enforced retro-actively, meaning the State can look back in time and gather up all those previously convicted under the same law(s) and say, hey, what you did is now punishable by death, we’re taking you death row. That would be obviously, ludicrously unconstitutional.

This new death penalty law creates a constitutional crisis. Here you have one group of people convicted of crime(s )and forced to follow “non-punitive” registration requirements and another group of people prospectively convicted of the same crime(s) and sentence to the most punitive sentence: death.

The legislature can’t have it both ways. How can you say this group’s requirements are non-punitive but this other group’s requirements are punitive (death) when they’ve been convicted of the same exact crime(s)? Either the laws are punitive or they’re not and the since the law now calls for death, the punitive vs. non-punitive argument is suddenly a no-brainer.

Once the punitive argument is settled, that means the Constitution finally comes to the rescue providing relief in many different ways for thousands and thousands of people nationwide dependent upon the date of convicted. For example for all those forced to register, forced out of their homes post-conviction are instantly removed from the registry and relieved of all requirements. For all those with a passport stamped years after conviction get a new, clean passport without the moniker. Residency restrictions applied to those post -conviction no longer apply and so on and so on….

Hence, that what this article means to me: don’t focus so much on the horrendous law itself, but rather on what it means for the registration scheme as a whole. In other words, bring it on. You think we’re so terrible that we should be put to death but in another breath you say sex offender laws and regulations AREN’T punitive??!! The civil/non-punitive argument suddenly becomes non-sensical.

This is another example of the erosion of rights that will creep into all aspects of the regulations for SOR mandatory punishments.

If law enforcement can seek the death penalty for physical child abuse, they will apply the same stringent regulations for minor infractions which will include life sentences without parole or probation for any so-called sex offence in the future. The death penalty sets a precedence that can be used to justify harsher life sentences for CP or other non-contact offences in the future. To kill someone who has not killed another or even maimed them for life is insane and unconstitutional in every way. So sad that FAC seems to support or at the very least not care about sentencing guidelines for sex offenses.

Exactly. Some of the folks who are on the registry were placed there retroactively. Given what various trolls have said, it’s not a stretch of the imagination.

If the stakes go up for the accused, they should for for filing false reports and for malicious prosecutions as well.