Comments on: NEWS RELEASE: Judge declares PA Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act Unconstitutional

By: Tina gray

Tina gray — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 17:04:32 +0000

I think the sex offender registry in the United States should be for those that are real offenders and predators. Not for someone that talked to someone online that told them they were of age, not for someone over 18 that slept with someone that was 15 or 16 and it was mutual,I am not talking about rape as that would fall under predator. At 15 and 16 these girls know what they are doing and you can’t say it’s ok as long as the guy does what you want when they want them to. Then the minute they don’t they turn them in. That’s not fair..

By: mut

mut — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:36:56 +0000

In reply to Todd.

not punishment for a crime because civil punishment for votes.
in-person registration requirements force one from his home or immediate vicinity. constructively. that is a deprivation of liberty. in perpetuity. a $ervitude. no lucid doubt about it.
prohibited bill of pains and penalties. imho.

By: mut

mut — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:56:08 +0000

great news but i dont get all the balancing of factors involved against admitted deprivations. such as the right to quit. it did not come from the judiciary so why not call it a bill of pains and penalties and be done with it? is the ban on such bills too much of a limitation on government that it is simply ignored? to preserve decades of unconstitutional legislation? like maybe gun laws? voter laws? ooops!

By: John

John — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:20:47 +0000

This is definitely unconstitutional. I get what the law was supposed to do in the beginning but like every other law. The people up in the capital start adding to the law and forget who these laws were put in place for. The murdering pedifials who when convicted don’t get out of jail but the poor guys who they cannot confict for long terms will never be able to move on especially the ones with lesser crimes in the eyes of the law. Let’s fix this atrocity.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:35:02 +0000

I would like to know how prosecutors are allowed to intertwine these statues and no one is questioning it. In my case they incorporated words for specific statutes under statutory definition that was not in the statute they convicted me of

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:20:50 +0000

As a convicted sex offender, pre sorta, I had a 10 registration only to be later turned into a lifetime registration.
It’s called violation of due process to change a sentence after a convicted, yet, the law makers don’t give a crap.
I did a video chat with my State Reps chief of Staff, basically no law maker will push to correct the law as the State would loose Federal money.
So money wins over unconstitutional laws?!

By: Allie

Allie — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:29:29 +0000

In reply to Lisa Kosten. I totally agree with you. How can they punish someone for looking at pictures that God only knows who put them there. This is the most stupidest thing that I ever heard. I really wish that every judge that put's someone on the registry has a child that commits a sex offence. I wonder just what that judge would think about the registry then.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 23:13:23 +0000

In reply to Dave. Slight correction, the appeal Docket # is 97 MAP 2022.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:48:17 +0000

In reply to Victor. And further there's a lot of lives at risk when you got people zero in on you and looking up your crime and then harassing you destroying your property intimidating you and then you know you got to move away you know you have to look over your shoulder all the time and that's not fair on us either or the rest of our family members who get the repercussion for what we did even though that we're sorry and we're trying to move ahead with our lives

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:46:10 +0000

If you’re not on probation and you’re free to go to these groups all the time to spend $70 a week when you only get 841 a month on Social Security doesn’t work well how am I supposed to live if I don’t have a job and I’m homeless and you want me to travel 20 miles away to go to a group and then travel back home twice a week and spend $70 a week for to attend groups I don’t think that’s fair some places don’t have free groups and then use the insurance they want to make you pay how am I supposed to live how am I supposed to eat I think it’s a double jeopardy it’s another sentence on top of a sentence