One of the defense's theories was that "the requested immigration records" might "support [the ex-wife's] motive to fabricate because claiming she was a victim of a sexual assault would provide a way to continue her legal residency in the United States without assistance from Appellant after her divorce."
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It is not hard to see why the jury concluded that the incident she described probably happened.
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"Lifetime registries are wrong," said the plaintiff's attorney. "They're wrong based on the science and they're wrong based on the reality that risk is not static. It is dynamic."
Twenty years ago, the justices deemed registration nonpunitive, accepting unsubstantiated assumptions about its benefits and blithely dismissing its costs.
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
Prison staff were fired in less than half of substantiated incidents of sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2018, and only faced legal consequences in 6 percent of cases.
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Justice Department regulations threaten people with prosecution for failing to register even when their state no longer requires it.
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
The U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals doesn't resolve whether such conduct is substantively constitutionally protected from criminal punishment, but holds that military law didn't put the defendant on notice that the conduct was illegal.
When states misuse sex-offender registries and apply them to any crime that involves a child, individual rights are abused.
Once again, policies billed as helping people coerced into prostitution wind up harming those that cops say they're trying to help.
A former guidance counselor served six years of a 25-year sentence thanks to a public defender's incompetence.
"I'm not saying my kid should get nothing," says Eric Beyer Jr.'s mother. "But to take an 18-year-old kid and put him in jail for longer than he's been alive?"
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Unsatisfied by the outcome of one case, the feds secured a much more severe penalty the second time around.
A federal lawsuit argues that the department's regulations violate due process, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment.
Plaintiff had shown the police cell phone messages in which she “casually discussed the sexual activity that occurred the night of the alleged rape and agreed to meet [the person she was accusing] again for a future sexual encounter,” and “told the alleged assailant that she ‘could make him lose his job’ after she discovered that he had remained active on the online dating website where they met.”
Even if the senators are genuinely confused, that underlines the recklessness of their attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The senator argues that questioning sex offender policies "endangers our children."
As expected, Tuesday's hearing was primarily made up of political theater.
The Supreme Court nominee raised serious constitutional concerns about laws that punish sex offenders after they complete their sentences.
The Missouri senator's attack on the Supreme Court nominee elides crucial distinctions and ignores widespread judicial criticism of child pornography sentences.
New York's residence restrictions for sex offenders raise the question of how irrational a policy must be to fail "rational basis" review.
It's "about values," Sgt. Dan Hils said, while mayor's office wishes cops would focus on violent crime.
Butts County, Georgia, Sheriff Gary Long cited no evidence to support his pre-Halloween stunt.
“During discovery, plaintiff shall not inquire of the defendant concerning his prior sexual or romantic experiences ... with anyone unless the identity of the person ... has been disclosed by the [person] or otherwise become public, in either case in connection with a claim, published report in mainstream media, or public allegation that any such sexual or romantic experience or encounter was not in all respects consensual.”
Anthony Broadwater, now 61, had no idea his accuser achieved fame and fortune while he has been living as a pariah for over 20 years on the sex offender registry.
People convicted of possessing child pornography receive long sentences, but new data suggest they are rarely arrested for contact offenses after their release.
The policy imposed an additional form of ritual humiliation on a reviled category of people without any plausible public-safety justification.
A federal judge says an anti-porn group's suit against Twitter can move forward, in a case that could portend a dangerous expansion of how courts define "sex trafficking."
Five men face "trafficking a person for sexual servitude" charges after meeting an undercover cop at a hotel.
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