Summerfield sex offender jailed after showing up a day late to register
A Summerfield sex offender spent a night in jail last week after showing up a day late for his quarterly registration update.
He has re-registered 25 times since originally registering in April 2015. He most recently re-registered in Marion County on Dec. 4, 2020 and was reminded his next re-registration was scheduled for March, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office report.
On the morning of Thursday, April 1, XXXX reported to the sheriff’s office to register. After being read his Miranda warning, he told a deputy he forgot he was required to register in March. XXXX said he realized on March 31 he had forgotten and came to the sex offender unit office, but it was closed. XXXX has been provided with the unit’s office hours in the past and is aware the office is closed on Wednesdays, the report said.
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Ok, I’m ready to get beat up over this one.
1. He had registered TWENTY FIVE times in the past.
2. He was given the day’s & hours of the office. (Brevard county SORT Office is closed on Wednesday also)
3. There are 31 days in March. That gave him 18 opportunities to register.
My heart truly goes out to this guy but he has to bear the full weight and responsibility for this one. We all hate and see the absurdity of the registration process but we have to live with it. It is the law and until it’s changed we have to comply. It is when we do not comply, and this is an excellent example, that we simply reinforce everybody’s stereotypes and hype.
You have no idea how hard it is for us as we get older to remember this registration process
Score for Marion County. Another “criminal” to keep the docket full. Doesn’t the law still read you only have to register once all sanctions are completed or did they fix that? Heres the thing. When this guy goes to court the attorneys, state, and judge all are going to look at and talk to this man like he just committed a horrible crime and broke the law all keeping inflation a straight face and no one is going to be o stand up for this man. Most likely he’ll be offered a 4-6 month jail sentence maybe even a year in prison for this terrible crime against society and his past sentence points will add to this new charge making him score out to a lengthy prison sentence if he doesn’t take the “bargain” which they will make him good true to his end of the “deal” while they will add more and more sanctions and punishments he’ll have to follow the rest of his life. Ask me how I know I’ll tell you how 20 years later I got popped for breaking a retroactive sanction where they reneged on what I agreed to on my plea bargain. I really should sue them I have plenty of money todo so.
Slow news day in the Villages it seems. Good thing the registry isn’t “punishment.” I guess if it were he would have been shot on the spot. I’ve read an interesting analysis recently in a law journal stating the case that the even the “punishment” question itself unconstitutional because no where in the Constitution is such a determination required to satisfy ex post facto. Courts are acting on mere precident alone. And all this hogwash about making exceptions if the State has a “legitimate” interest is like making an exception for the right to a fair trial. “Yeah usually a person has the right to a fair trial, but we really hate you so you’re just going straight to jail and we’ll let you out if and when we want to – you know because the State has a legitimate interest and all.”
A legitimate interest by the way that is backed by no research, no facts. We have judges looking us in the face and saying that they believe the Earth is flat. But it’s not flat, it’s round so we go ask another judge and he goes, “yup he’s right. the Earth is flat.” But the Earth isn’t flat, it’s round. He knows it’s round. Obviously he’s just saying it’s flat so I won’t recieve what the Law says I deserve.
I think it’s time that we start opening our eyes to something which black people have long been familiar: the system is corruptively working against us because of our crime, purposefully denying us protection under the Law, lying by saying that the arrest of the Summerfield sex offender is not punishment.
I guess that they had gotten as much mileage out of that golf cart chop shop story is they could
Here is my opinion:
This is barbaric!
SORNA (et al) are nothing short of an existential threat!
THEY declared war, not us!
Someday, perhaps, when our numbers have accrued enough, the fur will fly.
Let us hope that cool heads rule that day!
I thought all Sheriff’s Depts we’re supposed to provide a way for someone to “Register” anytime 24/7 !?!?!?. A office being “Closed” during the week should be ILLEGAL !!. What happens when an Emergency comes up and someone has to leave the state or drive another car or Their house catches fire ?? I can go on and on with the “What Ifs” !!!!!. I thought the law went by 48 “Business Hours” anyway ?????. . The “Law” shouldn’t be held against us/you anyone, If the Office isn’t OPEN !!!!!!!!. This is just ANOTHER WAY to “Trip Us Up” so they (The Law) can ARREST US !!!. Also, The “Violation” MUST BE INTENTIONALLY BROKEN !!!!!!!. The Sheriff’s office not be OPEN so he could have registered on Wednesday, Or It’s THE SHERIFF’S FAULT this man violated the law !!!!
Not sure why this is news. He was a day late. He knew the office was closed on Wednesdays. He was lucky to make such a low bail and get released the next day.
“Xxxxx was arrested and charged with failure to comply with sex offender requirements. He was taken to the Marion County Jail, where he was released shortly after midnight Saturday on $2,000 cash bond. Xxxxx is scheduled to appear in Marion County Court on May 4.”
$2,000 bond? Hell, last time I got bammed on a failure to register a Facebook account which I complied with and was never added by the sheriff’s office, they hit me with a $65,000 bond. $65,000 is against Florida constitutional law for even a violent 3rd degree felony. The average for St Lucie county is $10,000 for the same offense, but I get 6.5X the average. Despite having proof that it’s pretty much their fault, the people I entrusted to help instead screwed me over by stealing everything. So push comes to shove, I take it all the way up to trial time, and after only offering 3yrs. DOC time, they decided time served @ 1.5yrs was fine. So here’s the kicker, DOC agreed to it @13 months time served on a 18 month sentence I already served in the county. Sounds like to me someone owes me some time! Now, all of this could have been prevented if the sheriff’s office provided the paperwork I have requested since day 1 of registering with the state of Florida, but didn’t finally provide until my most recent release as if in an effort to prevent a possible civil suit. So this guy described got off light big time. 31 days to possibly register minus open office days is still sufficient, and how can you forget after doing it for over a decade on the same month? His problem, and not the county or state.