“A jury must find every fact that is essential to an individual’s punishment,” Gorsuch said. In the case before the court, the accused received “a new prison term based instead only on facts found by a judge by a mere…
Month: June 2019
U.S. Cops Are Facing a Recruitment Crisis. Will It Force Them to Change Their Ways? – Reason.com
“The American policing profession may be facing the most fundamental questioning of its legitimacy in decades,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, in a 2017 organizational newsletter. “The very essence of policing is being debated in…
Confined and Costly | CSG Justice Center
Probation and parole are designed to lower prison populations and help people succeed in the community. New data show they are having the opposite effect. Until now, national data regarding the impact of probation violations on prison populations have been…
Scrambled SCOTUS Lineup in ‘Gundy’ Ruling Upholds Executive Power | National Law Journal
“The Constitution promises that only the people’s elected representatives may adopt new federal laws restricting liberty. Yet the statute before us scrambles that design. It purports to endow the nation’s chief prosecutor with the power to write his own criminal…
Colorado Juvenile Sex Offenders Lifetime Registration Loses Key Case | Westword
On June 20, the Colorado Court of Appeals determined that the lifetime registration requirement for Coloradans found guilty of two or more sex offenses when they were juveniles qualifies as punishment under the Eighth Amendment. The 2-1 decision means that…
IN THE NEWS: Why are these men downloading child pornography?
Additionally, it is sometimes possible to distinguish men with primary pedophilic attractions from those who fell down the rabbit hole by analyzing the totality of their downloaded images. The pedophiles will tend to have a preponderance of child images, often…
IN THE NEWS: BJS fuels myths about sex offense recidivism, contradicting its own new data
Framing aside, the recidivism data presented in the BJS report can offer helpful perspective on the risks posed by people after release. Whether measured as rearrest, reconviction, or return to prison, BJS found that people whose most serious commitment offense…
Law allowing no exceptions to sex offender registration is unconstitutional, Alaska Supreme Court rules – Anchorage Daily News
While the court ruled that the state does, in fact, have the right to require out-of-state offenders to register, it found the registry law too sweeping, penalizing rehabilitated sex offenders without offering them any relief from the registry’s consequences. “ASORA…
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STIPULATED ORDER FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT AND FOR 90-DAY DEFERRAL OF DECISION ON INJUNCTIVE RELIEF TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION Source: 055_stip_order_for_decl_judgment_for_90_day_deferral.pdf
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Registration laws for those convicted of sex-related offenses, and more specifically the housing restrictions that impact these individuals, are counterproductive. The registries ensnare the wrong people. Overbroad housing restrictions make communities less safe while fostering a false sense of security.…