JL,
At times I’ve felt the same way as you. I’ve never let an opportunity for a FTR indictment go by without heading to court over it. Failures to Register come with a potential 6 yr. prison term here in WI(Class H felony). Nevertheless, off to trial I go. It was no different for the qualifying case in the early 1990s. I was offered deferred prosecution for 1 count of first degree sex assault. An actual attack, unlike your exposure case where no physical attack at all occurred. Because those who haven’t factually been found guilty are factually included in the regime, proves the original intent behind the regime wasn’t about something else altogether. Associate justice J.P. Stevens made that very point in the work up to Smith V Doh.