tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894047708467629219.post8309782498586511101..comments2023-10-20T02:59:17.903-07:00Comments on Judge David Hoort: No one is a fan of sex offenders, but . . .Judge David Hoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00994306688811919076noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894047708467629219.post-58498402721883794012012-05-07T06:55:00.902-07:002012-05-07T06:55:00.902-07:00Does this law now grant additional rights to regis...Does this law now grant additional rights to registrants who formerly were told by the courts that mere registration was not punitive and did not grant any appeal rights etc?<br /><br />It seems to me this makes the registration much more of a punitive measure that should now create more protections for anyone on the registry to appeal their classifications and placement.<br /><br />This suddenly takes registration way beyond "mere notification" of the public into the realm of an actual punitive nature of taking a persons children from them, potentially for a very minor indiscretion committed as a youth.<br /><br />What about when both parents live together and only one was required to register? What does this do to the family?<br /><br />When registrations first started I worried "who will be next" if this is allowed to become law. ( Man committed to civil commitment for alcohol abuse under sex offender law )<br /><br />Would a DUI now possible lead to loss of your child?<br /><br />This was created by congress not to protect the public but out of pure hate. You know this if you read transcripts of hearings in Congress when this was debated in hearings. It was never based on any evidence and never took the low recidivism rate into account. Sex offenders were and remain easy targets.<br /><br />But this is not the America I grew up in...this is getting scarey and reminiscent of how the Nazi's worked in the 30's with regard to Gypsies, then Jews. Start with the people everyone loved to hate and progress until there is no one safe from "deportation" etc. Again, who is next for this "special treatment".StuffDonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17673132363135590212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894047708467629219.post-76817591215279072962012-05-05T07:23:50.968-07:002012-05-05T07:23:50.968-07:00Interesting comment considering that this is just ...Interesting comment considering that this is just one more latent "result" of registration. Over the past two to three decades so many laws have been amended with retroactive "consequences" one has to wonder at what point do the plea agreements become nullified due to the fact that there could clearly have been no way so many defendants were truly fully informed and entered into them knowingly. Personally I foresee a large percentage of decades old cases where defendants took a plea and lived up to their obligations petitioning the courts for relief as clearly the plea which is a contract between TWO sides is not being honored by the other. These laws have gone too far and ensnare far too many even those that are not a danger.blipscripthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09823872700484553904noreply@blogger.com