NJ: Another state says you can’t move the finish line!!! Great news.
New Jersey is another in the line of State Supreme Courts to say the legislature can’t move the finish line.and impose new burdens for past crimes. Below is a link to the decision, but below that is a very informative quote from it.
https://www.njcourts.gov/attorneys/assets/opinions/supreme/a_24_20.pdf
[i]t is a fundamental principle of jurisprudence that retroactive application of new laws involves a high risk of being unfair. There is general consensus among all people that notice or warning of the rules that are to be applied to determine their affairs should be given in advance of the actions whose effects are to be judged by them. The hackneyed maxim that everyone is held to know the law, itself a principle of dubious wisdom, nevertheless presupposes that the law is at least susceptible of being known. But this is not possible as to law which has not been made.
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Man Iv been on the registry since the day it started in FL. They have moved the damn goal post so many times I can’t see it anymore.. And for good measure made all these laws retroactive. Id like to see a verdict like this in Florida sometime before I die..
I feel your pain.
I went from having to register only once when I got out (and for law enforcement use only). Then two times per year, then four times. Not to mention they have taken away freedoms of where I can work or volunteer. Also all of the other crap…
I feel your pain.
Justice always wins – eventually
because
Truth always wins – eventually.
The flagrant violations of my rights does not aid the victims of my crimes. It can only feed a twisted sense of revenge.
(Because 2 wrongs do not make a right.)
Thought #2
How come they “Cannot change the time line” but can “Retroactively” apply the registry at all. Those of us who had no registry when we were sentenced but did when released were cornswaggled.
The time line should apply to the entire registry, not just parts of it.
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS!! Ignorance of the law not being an excuse goes out the Flippin’ window when they pass laws later and then apply them retroactively. We cannot possibly know what laws are coming in the next year, two, ten, twenty…
I’ve often hoped a lawyer would argue that the ‘ignorance of the law’ policy was abandoned the moment the government made a law retroactive.
I am going to make a comparison here. When I was a kid, I was always the last kid to be picked for any sport. When I was at bat, the pitcher would purposely aim for my head with the ball.
Florida seems to feel like that since we are the last ones to come around to common sense.
We on the registry in Florida, are like me when I was a kid getting “Passed over” with all these rulings.
Buying oats for a dead horse here, but… Florida…
I’m happy for New Jersey. Is this just added to our argument in hopes a federal judge whose ruling applies to Florida agrees, or….what…?