Current Events > Missouri creates 10 classes of sex offenders and will track them all for life.

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TheCEmanCometh
04/10/17 7:36:11 PM
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http://www.kmov.com/story/35080625/new-mo-law-to-track-sex-offenders-is-unconstitutional-some-say

Keeping an eye on sex offenders for life, it's a new law for Missouri and this now includes first-time offenders. But some say it violates the constitution. "I don't expect anyone to have a lot of sympathy for me. I am on the sex offender list for a reason and it is because of what I did," said a sex offender named Frank. Frank didn't want to show his identity and didn't want to say what he did, but he did say it was a non-contact offense, meaning he didn't touch anyone. "I have lost a lot of things and I feel that the punishment fits and I deserve these things, however, I don't like being treated the same way as someone who raped someone," he said. That's what criminal defense attorney, Matt Fry, says is happening now with an amended law that's being enforced. "They are now applying them retroactively and ex-post-facto to make about 10 different classes of these offenders now have to come forward, wear a GPS monitoring and have lifetime supervision," said Fry.

Those 10 different classes include non-contact offenders like Frank. It also applies to offenders out of state too, who must return to Missouri or face another felony. "I am not saying certain individuals shouldn't be supervised, just know what they are getting into. They shouldn't be punished for past behavior," said Fry. Fry is challenging the law. However, it will stay in affect unless it's declared unconstitutional. "I don't feel like what I did warrants being monitored 24 hours a day and seven days a week," said Frank.


That seems messed up they are retroactively added crimes committed after the people served their time.
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Dragonblade01
04/10/17 7:39:35 PM
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Leave it to Missouri to make the SOR worse.
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Mist_Turnips
04/10/17 7:40:51 PM
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That's pretty funny lol
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Edgemaster97
04/10/17 7:45:38 PM
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MisterPorn
04/11/17 12:53:09 AM
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Mist_Turnips posted...
That's pretty funny lol

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Suchomimus
04/11/17 12:54:17 AM
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Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!
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lilORANG
04/11/17 12:58:31 AM
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Suchomimus posted...
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!

This only applies when you're aware of the time attached to said crime.
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booboy
04/11/17 12:58:59 AM
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IIRC, ex post facto laws are against federal law.
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ClockworkHare
04/11/17 1:02:26 AM
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I'm not in favor of this considering how easy it is to get on the registry for non-violent offenses that don't involve something serious like CP. The SOR has needed reform in general....
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gunplagirl
04/11/17 1:02:51 AM
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booboy posted...
IIRC, ex post facto laws are against federal law.

Very much so

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ChromaticAngel
04/11/17 1:03:36 AM
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TheCEmanCometh posted...
That seems messed up they are retroactively added crimes committed after the people served their time.

feels like a flagrant violation of double jeopardy and also seems a bit unconstitutional. Why are legislators being allowed to go back and add punishments without the approval of a judge? judges give out punishments, not lawmakers.
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gunplagirl
04/11/17 1:04:10 AM
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booboy posted...
IIRC, ex post facto laws are against federal law.

Very much so

But the south is the degenerative limb of the US that should be set adriftbooboy posted...
IIRC, ex post facto laws are against federal law.

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