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FL - Sex Offender Registration is Required Even When Adjudication is Withheld

Original Article 12/28/2010 By Ron Chapman In the case of [name withheld] versus the State of Florida (PDF), the issue was whether Mr. [name withheld] was a sex offender who had to register under Florida law even though adjudication was withheld in his case. The relevant facts of this case are that in 1994 Mr. [name withheld] pled nolo contendere to two counts of lewd and lascivious assault upon a child. Both crimes were committed between 1987 and 1990. The judge withheld adjudication and sentenced [name withheld] to five years of probation. In 1999, [name withheld] successfully completed probation. In 2008, [name withheld] was charged with committing the crime of failing to register as a sex offender. His lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the charge in which he argued that because adjudication had been withheld, [name withheld] had not been convicted and was therefore not a sex offender who was required to register with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).