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STATE v. LAWSON - Leagle.com Defendant-appellant, Jerry G. Lawson ("appellant"), appeals the judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, which denied his petition to contest his reclassification as a Tier III sex offender. For the following reasons, we reverse the trial court's judgment and remand the matter with instructions. In October 2001, appellant pleaded guilty to two counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of endangering children. After a hearing, the court designated him a sexual predator pursuant to the sex offender classification laws in effect at that time. Afterward, S.B. 10 amended the sex offender classification laws in response to the federal Adam Walsh Act. S.B. 10 divided sex offenders into three tiers based solely on the crime committed, and it directed the attorney general to reclassify sex offenders who had already been classified by court order under prior law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).