02/21/2012
COLUMBUS - The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that sex offenders who completed their sentences before a sex offender registration law took effect in 1997 do not have to register with law enforcement anymore.
The court ruled that sex offender registration law cannot be retroactive, 10TV News reported.
Before Tuesday’s ruling, all sex offenders had to notify with county sheriffs every 90 days about where they were living.
“So, the good news is since 1997, anyone who’s been convicted of a sex offense will be required to properly register, and the community will be notified,” Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said.
O’Brien said that there would be a number of sex offenders who people would no longer be able to track because the offenders completed their jail time before the enactment of Megan’s Law in 1997 and Ohio’s Adam Walsh Act that replaced it in 2007.
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This is not the first ruling stating this. In fact this is the third, and hopefully final one. This finally puts the nails in the coffin of this 18 year nightmare. I've been watching 2010-1660 since it came to mu attention a year and half ago. The guys case is almost identical to mine and I was waiting for the police to show to arrest me like they did him.
ReplyDeleteThis issue was settled several years ago with the Williams case and I fail to understand the argument the state had. If you watch the above video what the state says simply makes no sense, even to the guy saying it. You can tell he has no belief in what he is saying. Strange. There will not be a appeal to the US Supreme court in this case- the state will probably try but this is a state constitutional matter and they won't hear it.
Thank You Ohio Supreme Court for following the law!
“So, the good news is since 1997, anyone who’s been convicted of a sex offense will be required to properly register, and the community will be notified,” Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said.
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What's this guy talking about ???
My registration period ended in August of 2007 (10 years) but I still had to register for 4 more years due to the AWA until State v. Williams was ruled unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court.During this time I had been charged with a failure to register and after the Williams ruling the Common Pleas Judge,who had originally heard my case, dismissed the indictment.
I've been reading stories on this site for a while now and I am wondering why this story was even put on here? It is full of very misleading information.I understand that this information came from a news source and that they only do a half ass job of reporting the news. I would have thought that the person responsible for putting this story on this site would have highlighted the misleading and incorrect information and inserted the correct information.
ReplyDeleteI understand some of the details in the story are wrong but as a whole those details have no bearing on the stories main point. They tried to make it sound negative but I don't care- This ruling is among a very small handful of ruling that have come down in our (read MY) favor. Don't care if some idiot reporter tries to temper it as the message stands on it's own.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I have never understood is, the statement that someone who has been "convicted" has to register. I know of more than a few people who were never convicted but still have to register in Texas. What is up with that?
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