From NARSOL: The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) will partner with the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) for a three-hour conference call on March 2nd, beginning at 7:00 pm Eastern time. We will be updating you on what’s likely to happen next in three important cases pending in Michigan, Georgia, and New Mexico.
Hour 1: We will be discussing the recent decision in Michigan which will soon bar that state from enforcing SORA on those whose conduct occurred prior to 2011. In addition, the court’s final order will severely limit enforcement of various provisions of SORA on the remaining registrants. Paul Reingold from the University of Michigan School of Law will be with us to explain the ramifications and potential legislative action.
Hour 2: Attorney Mark Yurachek will be with us to discuss the Butts County Sheriff’s appeal of the favorable ruling we won last October regarding the placement of signs at Halloween. As Sheriff Long had vowed, he appealed, and the case is now pending in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. NARSOL and the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) have joined forces in support of Judge Treadwell’s decision. See press release.
Hour 3: Attorney Ashley Cloud from New Mexico’s Liberty & Justice Coalition will be discussing LJC’s pending lawsuit for those with out of state convictions and other challenges which will be initiated in 2020.
NOTE: IN RESPECT OF THE ANTICIPATED HIGH VOLUME OF CALLERS FROM THE STATES IMPACTED BY THESE CASES AND NOT WANTING TO DISPLACE THOSE WHO WERE DIRECTLY INVITED TO JOIN THE CALL, WE WILL NOT SHARE THE CALL-IN INFORMATION, BUT ASK THAT YOU LISTEN IN ON THE LIVE STREAM AT THE OPTION BELOW.
We also are going to live stream the call on You Tube. There won’t be any video, just an audio stream, so you can try this if you’d rather not call in.
This is a mirror of my case in Missouri. Received a SIS (suspended sentence on a plea agreement) and it is not recognized as a conviction in Missouri’s Constitution. I did the plea before the registry was ever enacted. I was off the registry until 2011 when the state recaptured me using the Federal registry….SORNA. I had won the case against the state in the Supreme Court, but lost the next time in 2011. Appealed to the Federal level and they dismissed it with prejudice. I cannot file on the same reasoning, so I am hoping someone will take this up. I spent around $60,000 to battle this, but I would be glad to help fund the right case. The Missouri ACLU is gutless. I did it through an Attorney named Arthur Benson. He practices solely on Constitutional issues.
All I can comment on this is: There is power in numbers. Although different, reminds me of the Selma walk African Americans took when they finally said , NO more injustice for our people.
By the way, if you have not seen the movie Selma, bring lots of tissues. If it doesn’t make you cry, you have no soul.