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NJ - Galloway Twp. sex-offender law to get hearing in top N.J. court

View the article here 01/28/2009 By EMILY PREVITI Staff Writer GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP - The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the township's argument in favor of sex-offender residency restrictions struck down by prior court decisions, attorneys said Tuesday. The Supreme Court has not set a date to open arguments on the case and a similar one out of Cherry Hill, in which residents _____ and _____ won their fight against local limits on where they, as moderate-risk sex offenders, could live. Attorney Frank Corrado said Tuesday he expects the state Supreme Court to hear the arguments in the spring. Corrado represents a Richard Stockton College student who is considered a low-risk sex offender. Identified in legal documents as "G.H.," Corrado's client is scheduled to graduate in 2010, four years after he successfully challenged Galloway's ban on convicted sex offenders living within 2,500 feet of a school, park, playground or day-care center...continue to full post

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