Would one say that would be unjustifiable in many ways or were are the precepts or the Commandments were these ordeals lay. Should we all go back to a pool hustler movie ” The hustler” or who is hustling who in many of these registry issues. Blind justice, vain justice, or intimidating justice call it what one wants but in reality nobody seems to look at the truth right in front of their nose in this registry type of propaganda of injustice.

AJ

I appealed the sentence (And won the 3rd time) I was not appealing the guilty plea because I thought if I just pleaded guilty to everything and not put anyone through a trial I would be given a lighter sentence. Boy was a I wrong.

I did not have the money for a trial (Spent it all on bonding out twice). My parents offered to mortgage their home for a trial but was not going to make my parents pay for what I did. (Although they paid in heartache over my arrest)

CherokeeJack:
It sure seems you could’ve gotten your case re-heard based on the judge’s bias and prejudice. It certainly would’ve been an easy appeal.

DavidM:
For the court to rule something to be Cruel and Unusual Punishment they would, by rule and definition, have to have found it to be punitive.

It’s this same line of logic that continues to give me hope with cases like Snyder because to find something to be ex post facto punishment a court must first find it punitive. That fact then makes it nearly impossible for the current law(s) as adjudicated to stand because it/they are no longer part of a “non-punitive regulatory scheme.”

a registrant

Unless otherwise noted, the public can sit in on hearings, sentencing etc. I have personally sat in on cases (To further my understanding and get a feeling for what judges are more understanding)

Certain judges lean more on what the prosecution is serving for lunch and some are more open minded and take both sides into consideration. I won’t name the judge that sentenced me, but I would not wish her on Charles Manson, that is how bad she was. Even my laywer was in tears and had to throw up in the hallway after my sentencing.

And although it took me doing almost half of my sentence to win an appeal, the charges were not disputed but the sentencing. My lawyer had the foresight to wait for another judge to be seated in her place before proceeding a 3rd time. That new judge is now on the Florida Supreme court. Wish I could get before him with my registry challenge, but that is not the way it works.

Joe

I lived in Charleston back in the late 70s. Even back then it was turning into a cesspool. Can’t even imagine what it is like then. We lived their due to my Dad being stationed there with the military. That was his last assignment before retirement.

On a side note, not sure if they still do it, but when I went to school there, they still used paddling (3 licks with the paddle) and I got it once. it was no paddle, it was a cutting board with holes drilled in it. Believe me, even as an adult that would make me cry. Think I still have the scars on my hind parts but I cannot turn my head that far to look. LOL

So which supreme court justices effectively took judicial notice the “facts” that sex offenders, especially ones who prey on children, are always going to be high risk? And how about the ones that said that all of these burdens placed on us are merely “ministerial” and not punishment?

There are no hugely persuasive cases involving sex offenders in less the key says that they can take us out in the town square and shoot us. .(sarcasm font)

The only way that would help other than just giving people some minimal due process rights is it South Carolina did not previously require you to register for life. Then you have an ex post facto possibility. But I suspect that South Carolina has always been lifetime registration. Like Florida

Or are you still looking at Michigan? After all, their registry has been shut down by the courts so I guess we can just stroll right in, right? (Sarcasm font)