A ban on public transportation amounts to an exile from New York City Read More
Representing Unpopular Defendants
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
PA high court will again review sex offender registration
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
An AG and a federal judge question established theory that Sex Offender Registration is not “punishment”
Interesting news from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center: “In the past week, there were two notable developments regarding the constitutionality of state sex offender registration schemes. First, as noted by Douglas A. Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed highly significant amicus briefs in two Michigan Supreme Court cases, “arguing that… Read More