The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s sex offender registry law violates offenders’ right to due process. In an opinion handed down Friday, the court — voting 3-2 — found the law requiring all offenders to register unconstitutional, unless offenders are first given the opportunity to demonstrate they aren’t a danger to the… Read More
A ban on public transportation amounts to an exile from New York City Read More
My career as a defense attorney specializing in sex crimes started in 2004, during my first “night” arraignment shift at the old Criminal Court building on Schermerhorn Street in downtown Brooklyn. Two details of that night are fixed in my memory. First, the rats. Second, the pile of sex offense cases, each marked with a… Read More
From the Collateral Consequences Resource Center: “Two years ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shook up long-settled orthodoxy by ruling that the state’s sex offender registration law, otherwise known as SORNA (Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act) was punishment….The effect of that decision meant that although Pennsylvania was forced to reduce the length of registration for… Read More