Acquitted by a jury, but forced to register as a sex offender
The Appellate Squawk blog, written by a New York attorney who specializes in criminal appeals, portrays the majority’s willingness to second-guess the jurors by crediting testimony they rejected as another example of the special rules that seem to apply in cases involving sex crimes. “Naturally the Court doesn’t admit that it moves the goalposts for sex cases,” it says. “But these days, when it comes to accusations of sexual misconduct, the standard of proof is that they were made. The Court is simply going with the flow—which, by definition, is downhill.”
Read the article by Jacob Sulium in Reason.
Posted by rbchatelle on Monday, April 30th, 2018 @ 7:55PM
Categories: Sex Offender Issues
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