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CA - Lawyers May Find Way Around Megan's Law for Old Sex Offenses

Original Article Listen 02/17/2011 By Ginny LaRoe SAN FRANCISCO ? A sex offender determined to keep his name off the state Megan's Law website hired a leading criminal appellate lawyer and lodged a constitutional claim that has reached the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. For the offender, the case is about his personal safety and economic and emotional well being. For the state, it's a fight to protect a key aspect of the 2004 sex offender law: its retroactivity. If the Ninth Circuit panel's grilling of Supervising Deputy Attorney General Peggy Rufra at oral argument today is any indication of how they will rule, an untold number of sex offenders who struck deals prior to the law change could have new grounds to get their information pulled from the site...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).