TX: Man sentenced to 99 years for being present on school property
A person required to register as a sex offender got 99 years in Prison for failing to comply with his sex offender registration requirements. He was unlawfully present at a Catholic School, where he approached the father of a student for money to buy food and then refused to leave.
When police were called and he was asked for ID, he showed his sex offender registration card.
Granted he had an extensive arrest history and was clearly not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but 99 years for violation of a proximity ordinance is clearly a stiffer sentence than he got for all his crimes cumulatively, since he’s only 65 years old!
It’s hard to argue the registry is not punitive, when you can get more prison time for a registration violation than the underlying offense that got you put onto the registry.
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No one has yet to outlive a Texas 99 year sentence. His projected release date is 2120 so if he lives to be 146, he has a good shot at being released.
I hope that teaches him not to panhandle in a public school.
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2021/03/11/sex-offender-registries-can-cause-families-and-partners-to-become-collateral-damage/?slreturn=20210212170237
Heck I would rather takes my chances running from the law than simply give up and give them the opportunity to arrest me ASAP. Freedom is everything, and I will be damned if I am going to bend over and let them have at me so easily, they are going to have to earn it the hard way. Just my 2 pennies.
The registration is clearly an additional punishment. A few years ago I was sentenced to one year in prison for failure to change my address on my Drivers license. The address that I has recently moved to was updated on my SO registration with the local sheriff’s office. I just forgot to update the info with the DMV. Some of this registration BS is very redundant. I mean seriously. There is no way that the SO requirements is not punishment. The system is being set up to have as many possibilities of us to forget something somewhere. I you do forget their is no leniency whatsoever even if you have underlying conditions to prove memory loss ie head trauma, PTSD, medications and age. Sometimes it’s very difficult to not toss in the towel and eat a bullet. Which I refuse mostly because I feel it’s just what the politicians/lawmakers want most of us to do. Is make life so difficult that we just give up.
Oh I forgot to mention that my sentence for my original offense that landed me on the registration was 4yrs probation. But failure to update my address on my license got me 1 yr in prison. Oh and prison is definitely not a place you want to be as a SO. Inmates find out what your current and past charges are that got you in prison and either exploit you, you get beat down, stabbed, raped and in some cases murdered.
You mentioned “rape” as one of the types of assaults on sex offenders in prison. Think about that for a moment. The other inmates hate “sex offenders” so much that they’re willing to commit a SEX OFFENSE against us. The irony!
Maestro
Many of those in there, pointing fingers at others might be defecting the spotlight off of their own sex offense. AND, even if they are not in there for that, many of them probably at one time got with someone underage, they just didn’t get caught.
And if one of them had someone, say a 16 year old charged as an adult, thrown into their cell, some I am sure would go after them for sex. The word hypocrite I guess doesn’t apply to their mentality.
AND, a large majority of the time, it is the guards telling the inmates who the sex offenders are.
many of them probably at one time got with someone underage, they just didn’t get caught.
Yeah, it’s called “house parties” that happen in the hood every weekend.
They know damn well the young girls cake on the makeup and try to appear and act older and they don’t care. They only care about the ones who were caught and sentenced for the same things they got away with.
So when is a court of any importance going to take up the issue of it being punishment. Many individual states have ruled it punishment like Missouri but it doesn’t seem to matter yet.
David
Punishment is, according to some, the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable.
the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offense.
*the penalty inflicted.
*rough treatment or handling inflicted on or suffered by a person or thing.