Out of State Challenge FILED!
Just moments ago the Out-of-State Challenge was filed in Federal Court! We are super excited and appreciative to all who helped make this happen! We will follow with commentary (or you can share your own in the comments below), but we wanted to get the news out to you as soon as possible and get a copy of the complaint into your hands immediately. Special thanks to all who made this possible.
A copy of the complaint can be read here:
Out of State Challenge – Complaint
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If this case doesn’t PROVE THAT THE REGISTRY IS PUNISHMENT, Then Nothing will !!!! To me and most of us (anyone with half a brain) this just proves that it is DEFINITELY PUNISHMENT !!!!. I hope this guy Mops the Floor with this !!!! I wish him all the best of luck !!. Let’s Pray that he fights this to the Absolute End !!!!
Bravo! I have been on the Fla. S. O. Registry since 2008 when I came to stay for 2 weeks to tend to my dying mother. I was on probation at the time and had to do a full registration in Ft. Meyers. I live in Dallas, Tx. I hope that some sanity will prevail in the courts and end this bogus B.S.
I agree with Cherokee’s comment, “wow just wow.” I scanned the complaint and must say that if anyone has a valid argument regarding this subject, the plaintiff does. If FAC instigated the lawsuit, you picked precisely the right person in the right circumstances.
As I’ve said before, I’m constantly amazed by Florida’s absurd registration laws. I do pray that Mr. Marcoux prevails, the state gets poked in the eye and the others affected by this provision get relief.
Veritas.
Glad to know who is behind agencies like the DMV. As it’s not right we can’t renew tags or driver’s
licenses on line,
This is great news. I will definitely be following this. I don’t live in Florida anymore, but the lifetime registration folllowed me. I hate the registry and want it gone. Where I live now you can get off in 10 years with some charges, others a bit longer. Honestly if there was light at the end of the tunnel I would be happy.
Which state is that? And is that state making you register because of FL?
I am in Indiana now, not because of the registry. It is not much different, except I can vote here. I am required to register and waiting on them to figure out what level I will be. The paperwork comes from Florida to here and is reviewed. IF, this case goes well and IF I am classified for only ten years here. I will definitely be looking into trying to get off the registry here. Of course Florida still has the lifetime registration which will be the problem, but it is a start.
So you actually think that Indiana will be obeying that recent court order? Good luck with not being put on for life. I once considered Indiana because I SHOULD have been a 10 year registrant according to the law. But that is because it was not obvious that they put “out of state.” people on for life, EVEN if you had been convicted in Indiana, moved away and came back later. Same deal with Kentucky. I suspect the only reason that the good guys won that case in the first place was because Indiana was treating some of its own people differently. I don’t know if anyone would have “won” if it involved an out of state conviction. And yes, I put won in quotes. That is how ALL of these “wins” should be characterized until such time as we get an ACTUAL win that the states have to obey.
Thanks and good luck! Seems valid to me, but I’m not exactly impartial. Certainly couldn’t have found a better plaintiff to have brought the case with either. Thanks again.
this is great news. I was wondering how anyone with a felony could move to Canada. i was told that i couldn’t. i would like to know how i can. i would move there if so. but it sounds like it is not completely different because the stigma has followed this man from the registry use of his personal information.