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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.
The men must keep masturbation diaries, wear ankle monitors, and even use penile circumference gauges.
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Not all sexual misdeeds are sex trafficking.
Programs that keep sex offenders indefinitely confined face new challenges.
The women's liberation movement has gotten tied to mass incarceration. It needs to break free.
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Two women still face felony charges, though the cases against all male defendants were dropped.
The practice evades constitutional constraints by casting punishment and preventive detention as treatment.
The case against the popular pornography site rests on misleading data and hidden agendas.
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Charges against Kraft were (rightfully) dismissed. The women he patronized now have criminal records.
Bonus fact: The majority opinion was written by a male judge, joined by three female judges (one of them a former sexual assault prosecutor). The dissent was written by a male judge.
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According to the appeals court, the relevant question is what legislators were trying to accomplish.
Decriminalization bills have floundered in recent months in New York and Washington, D.C, but advocates hope that the latest push for criminal justice reform could re-energize the movement.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.