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Breaking News: Breasts Are Popular

Posted on May 26, 2010
Study Finds Breasts Might Fascinate Women As Much As Men To the end of line, men. Women are also intrigued by men.Since the beginning of time, there have been prehistoric beasts, the battle for survival and breasts. Also since the beginning of time, there have been men obsessed with breasts...

Sex sting draws complaints of targeting gays

Posted on May 26, 2010
5-26-2010 California:Tensions are rising in Palm Springs following recent court allegations that police singled out gay men when enforcing the city's laws against indecent exposure and sex in public.Those allegations, part of a motion filed May 4 in Riverside County Superior Court, stem from a summer 2009 Palm Springs police sting operation aimed at curbing public sex in the city's Warm Sands

Sexually violent predator petitions must be refiled

Posted on May 26, 2010
5-26-2010 Indiana:The status as a sexually violent predator for two inmates stands for now, but the Indiana Court of Appeals directed the men to refile their motions to remove that status pursuant to the recently amended statute dealing with this issue...

Law Adds Video Voyeurs to Sex Offender Registry

Posted on May 26, 2010
5-26-2010 Wisconsin: A new state law now lets judges put video voyeurs on the sex offender registry.Video voyeurism is classified as a felony. It's when someone records another person in the nude without their consent, makes copies of the recording, or distributes them...

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ACTION ALERT: AWA Supplement Guidelines - Comments Can Now Be Submitted

Posted on May 25, 2010
5-24-2010 National:First, and most important is, Thanks to all those who sent in something to Regulations.gov to explain what was wrong on their website, without that help comments could not be submitted. (Note: No matter what Regulations.gov may say about what folks submitted, it got them to make changes...

Extraconstitutional Kagan: Unnecessary & improper

Posted on May 25, 2010
5-25-2010 National:As solicitor general, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan argued for the same misguided outcome -- and the same dubious constitutional reasoning behind that outcome -- that the United States v. Comstock majority announced this month...

ANGER OVER THE SERIAL RAPE LIAR WHO DROVE AN INNOCENT MAN TO KILL HIMSELF

Posted on May 25, 2010
5-25-2010 United Kingdom:A LYING woman whose false allegation of rape drove one man to suicide made the same allegation against another man and almost led him to take his own life too.The consequences of the woman?s false allegations emerged when the second man was cleared by a jury of rape in just 45 minutes after a £30,000 trial...

Crime continued downward trend in 2009: FBI

Posted on May 25, 2010
5-25-2010 National:(Reuters) - Murders and auto thefts fell sharply in the United States in 2009, extending the downward trend in violent and property crimes, according to preliminary statistics released by the FBI on Monday.It was the third straight annual decline in violent crimes and seventh straight annual decline for property crimes, which occurred despite a weak economy, which is often

Accused rapist beaten in revenge

Posted on May 24, 2010
5-23-2010 Washington:Two men were arrested early Sunday morning after they attacked another man who was accused of raping the wife of one of the assailants.Issaquah police were called to the 400 block of NE Birch Street around 2 a.m. on the report of a rape...

Cops: Sexual predator tortured with blow torch

Posted on May 23, 2010
5-23-2010 Florida:Tyler Weisman is considered a crime victim, but getting tortured and robbed while looking for a hooker late Thursday may land him in prison, according to the state Department of Corrections.Weisman, a 54-year-old registered sexual predator, was beaten about 9:30 p...

TECHNICAL CORRECTION: AWA Supplement Guidelines - Correcting Regulations.gov Error

Posted on May 23, 2010
5-23-2010 National:Note: In reference to my earlier e-mail, some folks are still having problems with the 2,000 character limit on the Regulations.gov website, so below (between the red bars) is a ULTRA-STRIPPED DOWN version of what needs to be sent to Regulations...

UPDATE: AWA Supplement Guidelines - Correcting Regulations.gov Error

Posted on May 23, 2010
5-23-2010 National:On 5-20-2010 I explained to folks what had happened on the Regulations.gov website which prevents EVERYONE from posting "comments" to the NEW Supplemental Guidelines (SG)(actually they are NEW Proposed Rules).So far, to my knowledge, all efforts to get Regulations...

Suit challenging city ordinance transferred to federal court

Posted on May 22, 2010
5-22-2010 Pennsylvania:EBENSBURG ? A state inmate?s lawsuit challenging the legality of a Johnstown ordinance limiting where sex offenders can live has been transferred to the U.S. District Court in?Johnstown by the city.Pittsburgh attorney Edward Joyal, who represents the city and city officials, said the lawsuit should be heard in the federal court because it alleges U...

Defiant Judge Takes On Child Pornography Law

Posted on May 22, 2010
5-22-2010 New York:In his 43-year career as a federal judge, Jack B. Weinstein has come to be identified by his efforts to combat what he calls ?the unnecessary cruelty of the law.? His most recent crusade is particularly striking because of the beneficiary: a man who has amassed a vast collection of child pornography...

Sex offender label requires hearing, court rules

Posted on May 22, 2010
5-22-2010 Texas:AUSTIN ? Texas has been unconstitutionally designating some prison inmates as sexual criminals without giving them an appropriate hearing, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.The ruling could affect as many as 6,900 prison inmates who have never been convicted of a sex offense although they may be sexual predators...

AG: Proposed Change to Sex Offender Law Unconstitutional

Posted on May 21, 2010
5-20-2010 Tennessee:A state attorney general?s opinion says a proposed change to state law dealing with sexual offenders residing with children is unconstitutional. It involves SB3697 by Sen. Diane Black, who requested the opinion, and Rep. Debra Maggart...

Adam Walsh Act Compliance Means What?

Posted on May 21, 2010
5-21-2010 National:If a state is declared "in compliance," what does that mean? The SMART Office just declare Florida to be "in compliance." But are they?Have you taken the time to review the Florida sex offender registry to see if it follows what the Adam Walsh Act calls for? We have, and it does not comply with mandatory Adam Walsh Act information...

Somer Foundation Pushes For New Bill

Posted on May 20, 2010
5-19-2010 Florida:Law Would Require Sex Offenders To Live Outside 1-Mile Radius From SchoolORANGE PARK, Fla. -- The Somer Thompson foundation is pushing for a new bill that could soon be in the hands of state lawmakers.Somer's law, which is under final review by the foundation, would require sex offenders and predators to live outside Somer's safety zones -- or a one-mile radius from any

I'm a criminal and so are you

Posted on May 20, 2010
5-20-2010 National:(CNN) -- Who am I? How do I identify? Lately, I've been telling people that I'm a criminal. This shocks most people, since I don't "look like" one. I'm a fairly clean-cut, light-skinned black woman with fancy degrees from Vanderbilt University and Stanford Law School...

House votes to expand national DNA arrest database

Posted on May 20, 2010
The method used to pass this bill -suspension of the rules- is the exact method used to pass the Adam Walsh Act (claimed by Rep. Sensenbrenner to be non controversial). 5-20-2010 Washington DC:Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U...

Scots sex offenders win human rights fight

Posted on May 20, 2010
5-20-2010 Scotland:Judges have ruled the system that places sex offenders in Scotland on a register for life with no way of being removed is in breach of their human rights.In a landmark judgment involving a convicted sex offender who was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely at the age of 15, three judges said the scheme, as it stands, is incompatible with the European Convention on

Minnesota Court of Appeals Holds State Court Has No Civil Confinement Authority over Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Members

Posted on May 20, 2010
Folks, if this is true and it appears to be so, then the Adam Walsh Act is AGAIN unsettling more state laws. And, this will be true in the other 19 states where they have civil commitment laws and tribes.5-20-2010 Minnesota:The court?s syllabus:The state does not have jurisdiction pursuant to Public Law 280 to civilly commit an enrolled member of a federally recognized Indian tribe as a

Ohio Supreme Court Rules Appeal of Sex Offender Classification is a Criminal Matter

Posted on May 20, 2010
5-20-2010 Ohio:(May 20, 2010) The Supreme Court of Ohio today ruled that an appeal from a sexual offender classification must be appealed in the criminal case and filed within 30 days.The Court?s 6-0 decision, authored by Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, affirmed a ruling by the 10th District Court of Appeals, but for reasons different from those stated by the appellate court...

Paper's Error Caused Threats, Couple Says

Posted on May 20, 2010
5-20-2010 Oklahoma:OKLAHOMA CITY (CN) - A couple says they were threatened and automatic weapons were fired near their house after a newspaper incorrectly listed their address as the home of a sex offender. The couple sued the Guthrie News Reader and its corporate parent in Oklahoma County Court...

UPDATE: AWA Supplement Guidelines - Submitting Comments

Posted on May 20, 2010
5-20-2010 National:It appears that the SMART Office has convinced Regulations.gov to post the Supplemental Guidelines on their site. You can view what they posted HEREThe problem is, they have posted it totally wrong, they posted it as a "NOTICE" not as a "Proposed Rule" which means that folks cannot post COMMENTS to it...

Texas prisoner set to die for killing cellmate

Posted on May 19, 2010
5-18-2010 Texas:LIVINGSTON, Texas ? Rogelio Cannady was serving a pair of life prison sentences for killing teenage sweethearts in the Rio Grande Valley when the fatal beating of his cellmate put him on death row.Cannady, 37, was set to die Wednesday evening in Huntsville for the slaying nearly 17 years ago...

Florida Enhances Sex Offender Registration And Notification

Posted on May 19, 2010
Another state falls prey to the hysteria and denies a block of its citizens their rights under the U.S. Constitution. 5-19-2010 Florida:Florida is third state to implement the Adam Walsh Act, substantially enforce Sex Offender Registration and Notification procedures...

Feds cite sex abuse at juvenile girls center

Posted on May 19, 2010
5-19-2010 Indiana:Report finds former Indy facility failed to protect offenders from harmA U.S. Justice Department investigation uncovered new details about the scope of problems at a former state juvenile center in Indianapolis, including "a rampant sexual environment" and unnecessary strip searches...

Since court ruled homeless sex offenders don't have to register, number claiming homelessness jumps 62 percent

Posted on May 19, 2010
If it is correct that, the number of homeless went up, I would want to know if the number missing went down? The reporter apparently missed that point.5-19-2010 Michigan:GRAND RAPIDS -- Sex offenders may have found a convenient way to keep law enforcement at arms length: Claiming they're homeless...

The Supreme Court's Decision About Sexually Dangerous Federal Prisoners: Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance?

Posted on May 19, 2010
5-19-2010 Washington DC:The Supreme Court's Decision About Sexually Dangerous Federal Prisoners: Could It Hold the Key to the Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance?On Monday, in United States v. Comstock, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the power of the federal government to confine mentally ill, sexually dangerous prisoners beyond the expiration of their criminal

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