VIDEO: Pennsylvania vs. Torsilieri Oral Arguments
“There is a difference between the conviction and the effect of the registry’s label of a ‘high risk of danger’ on individuals, particularly things like unemployment and joblessness, houselessness, depression, and even suicide are affected by the label. SORNA says that individuals on this registry pose a risk of sexual danger, not just at the time of conviction, but now and forever into the future as long as they are on the registry.”
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The only issue at hand is, is the registry constitutional or not. Seems to me that our arguments are not hitting that strongly or directly enough. We make “other” good points, but don’t address strongly or directly or factually enough why the registry is unconstitutional. .
@Anonymous
I might be using this wrong but there is a term that comes to mind.
“Equally applied under the law”. There is nothing equal about the registry when only crimes involving a sex offense have a publicly accessible punishment page for each and every one of us. These pages are maps to our house for those who want to harm us and or our families.
I do not have the link but last year I saw a story where deputies went to check on a registered person and ended up at the wrong house and things did not end well.
Because of my entrapment case, I’ve wished death upon defense attorney and cop who both lied. For destroying my life with lies, I feel death is suitable. Would I myself inflict harm upon them? No because they’re not worth it. And it’s not worth destroying my life any further than they already have. Many people are living under the delusion that the justice system is about rehabilitation but it’s not. As long as big business plays a part, corruption will continue to run rampant.
Sounds like “Future Crime.” How about a case by case basis? They’re grouping, which is still a low number. 5.3%. Individually, the number is even lower. They are fighting hard for the federal dollars to keep and maintain a registry, along with funds to keep prisons full. And legislators have vested interests in keeping private prisons full because stocks.
All of us are a risk of maybe, woulda, coulda, shoulda.
I might kill someone, I may rob a bank, I may not pay my taxes, I might escape and head to Mexico, I might burn down a dairy queen.
I think by now you know I am not going to do any of those things.
For me it has been 32 years since my crime. I have not gotten so much as a traffic ticket. The registry is not keeping me from committing another crime. All the registry is doing is giving a false security to neighbors and putting my family members of being harmed or even killed, which has happened all across the U.S according to stories we have read on F.A.C.
They say at any time we could commit another sex crime? Well I counter that by also telling the truth, everyone on the registry at any time could be killed by a vigilante, as well as our family members.
Well said, and lets not forget about the tens of millions of people NOT on the registry, who have never committed a crime in their lives, who MIGHT commit a sex crime.
News flash…I was not on the registry and had a clean record when I screwed up, just like thousands of other people. The registry today does not prevent me from doing anything wrong. What prevents me from screwing up is my desire to live a productive life, to take care of my family and hang out with my friends. Any time I might decide to do something wrong, which will never happen, the registry will NEVER prevent it.
Here’s our take on the hearing:
https://parsol.org/parsol-responds-to-may-23-2023-scopa-hearing-in-comm-v-torsilieri/
I listened to the arguments yesterday morning. Very good & interesting. ‘Sure hope we get a win! 👍🏻