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WI- Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police

Posted on May 13, 2009
5-13-2009 Wisconsin:MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody's movements without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday.However, the District 4 Court of Appeals said it was "more than a little troubled" by that conclusion and asked Wisconsin lawmakers to regulate GPS use to protect against abuse by police and private individuals...

OH- Mason Teens Sentenced In 'Sexting' Case

Posted on May 13, 2009
See earlier stories here and here:5-13-2009 Ohio:MASON -- Two Mason teenagers who admitted sharing nude photos over cell phones have been sentenced.The teens, a boy and girl, both 15, pleaded guilty to charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, misdemeanors of the first degree...

VT- 2009 Vt. Legislative Wrapup

Posted on May 13, 2009
5-13-2009 Vermont:When the legislature adjourned Saturday they had made history by passing a civil marriage bill allowing same-sex couples to marry."The bill passed in a few weeks and for the first time in a long time a governor's veto was overridden," said Eric Davis, a political scientist...

MI- Sex offender __ convicted of loitering near school

Posted on May 13, 2009
Is this a case of entrapment?5-13-2009 Michigan:MUSKEGON COUNTY -- A Norton Shores sex offender has been convicted of loitering near a school and of failing to pay a sex-offender registration fee, but acquitted of two other school loitering counts.The misdemeanor verdicts came Friday in the case of ___, 45, of 5982 Lake Harbor, after a bench trial heard by 60th District Judge Michael J...

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Police Used GPS Illegally, Court Rules

Posted on May 13, 2009
Interesting, New York says UNCONSTITUTIONAL but in WIsconsin its CONSTITUTIONAL, is the U.S. Supreme court in the futre for this issue?5-13-2009 New York:In a 4-to-3 ruling, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the State Police violated a criminal suspect?s rights under the State Constitution when it placed a GPS tracking device inside the bumper of his van without obtaining

CA- Stanford law students helping to free 3-strikes inmates

Posted on May 13, 2009
If you think this is not applicable, read carefully and inbetween the lines of my highlights.5-13-2009 California:STANFORD, Calif. ? Norman Williams feared he would be an old man if he was ever allowed to leave the granite walls of Folsom State Prison...

Why Sexting Should Not Be Prosecuted as "Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor"

Posted on May 13, 2009
5-13-2009 National:In a recent column for this site (Findlaw site), I took issue with an attempt to prosecute teenagers' "sexting" ? that is, the practice of sending semi-nude or nude photos of each other via cellphone ? under anti-child-pornography laws...

FL- A false alarm puts scare into sex victims

Posted on May 12, 2009
Lets see, what is it that Florida law enforcement does well?5-12-2009 Florida:Thousands of Floridians were mistakenly warned that sex offenders were no longer on the state's registry that tracks their whereabouts.Eleven thousand Floridians -- many of them recovering victims of sexual assaults -- were notified over the weekend that the state would no longer be tracking registered sex offenders

NC- Church among activities off limits to sex offenders

Posted on May 12, 2009
5-12-2009 North Carolina:RALEIGH ? If they want to repent their sins, sex offenders in Buncombe County and elsewhere had better do it at home.Some church services are among the activities that are off limits because of tough restrictions on registered sex offenders' movements, passed all but unanimously last year by state lawmakers who invoked a young girl's tragic murder...

The "Pedophile-Issue" in the Hate Crimes bill HR-1913 and How It Came To Be..

Posted on May 12, 2009
5-12-2009 National:To understand how the issue of "pedophiles" was morphed into the Hate Crimes bill one must first understand how rules are made in the U.S. House (The Senate has a similar process which I will not get into). This explanation is long but there is no other way to get to how the "Pedophile-Issue" was morphed into the Hate Crimes legislation...

The economy has really hit Michigan, if your arrest includes the use of a police canine dog, you might be paying for dog biscuits

Posted on May 12, 2009
5-12-2009 Michigan:Sometimes a little levity in life is needed, today Michigan provides that for us.A new bill being proposed allows a judge to require a person convicted of certain crimes to pay for various costs related to the arrest, prosecution and conviction of their crime/s...

US wins first seat on UN rights council

Posted on May 12, 2009
5-12-2009 National:The United States won a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time along with four countries accused of serious human rights violations ? Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia.Former President George W. Bush's administration boycotted the council over its repeated criticism of Israel and its refusal to cite flagrant rights abuses in Sudan and elsewhere...

Sex abuse claim 'led to victim bashing'

Posted on May 11, 2009
5-11-2009 Australia:A MAN has been bashed to within an inch of his life after making claims of abuse against a doctor - with links to the NT - who then committed suicide. Simon Todd Bennett, 30, has been charged with attempted murder over an attack on Will Meinhardt at his East Malvern home two weeks ago...

FL- E-mail identified wrong man as sex offender

Posted on May 11, 2009
5-11-2009 Florida:Mix-up offers a cautionary tale to those who hit 'send' in hasteEAST MANATEE - Thomas Carpenter's job as a tae kwon do instructor for children requires a high level of trust from parents.In one lesson, Carpenter plays the role of a creep who grabs the children's shoulders; to get away, the elementary school-age students thrust up their arms to push off Carpenter's hands before

What Have We Become?

Posted on May 10, 2009
Note: A few of the example were mixed, so I corrected them and added links to the stories.5-10-2009 National:There has always been the occasional sociopath amidst our ranks. We used to hope we could count on our laws to protect us by providing appropriate sanctions to deter them from harming us...

Sexting poses risk to teens? health, warns expert

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 National:A Binghamton University expert in New York says that parents should beware of ?sexting??the latest trend of sending sexually charged messages or images via cell phones?because it may post dangers to their teenaged kids? health. Mary Muscari, an Associate Professor in the Decker School of Nursing, says that sexting can result in young lives being lost to suicide or shattered by

NJ- N.J. court rejects sex-offender residency bans

Posted on May 10, 2009
Folks, I could not resist. The NJ high court said "local residency ordinances frustrate the purpose of Megan's law" invalidating all local residency ordinances.So lawmakers say, "OK, we will give the power to local authorities to enact local residency laws (read article below), or state lawmakers will create a statewide residency law...

OH- Sex offenders? behavior hard to explain

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 Ohio:One psychologist says, ?It?s ... very smart people doing very stupid things.?What causes successful, high-profile individuals to risk so much for seemingly so little?Local psychologists say people who commit sex-related crimes often are driven by an obsessive streak and deluded by denial into thinking their crimes aren?t serious and they?re unlikely to be caught...

Internet, sex addictions go hand in hand

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 National:In more than 10 years of treating patients for serious sex and Internet addictions, Dr. David Greenfield said he has never seen a case like that of Greenwich investor Stephen Dent, who became a repeated victim of extortion after interacting with women he met online...

VT- Vt. OK's a broader offender registry

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 Vermont:MONTPELIER - Lawmakers passed a bill yesterday quintupling the size of the state's Internet sex offender registry to protect "families and communities and kids."The action, which came as the Legislature prepared to adjourn for the year, moves the state closer to but still not into full compliance with a 2006 federal law designed to make responses to sex crimes more uniform

Internet may be to blame for growth of child abuse, psychologist says

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 Scotland:The internet may be responsible for creating a new breed of sex criminals, a leading clinical psychologist has warned. Speaking in the wake of Scotland?s most serious paedophile conspiracy trial, Ethel Quayle, a child abuse expert, said that the opportunity to access instant images of abuse appeared to be responsible for the emergence of ?novel behaviour? in some men,

A Crime He Didn't Commit

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 Canada:Fifty years ago, a gawky Canadian boy named Steven Truscott offered a bike ride to his schoolmate Lynne Harper, 12, a petite girl with a mop of auburn curls.She scooted up onto the handle bars, and Truscott peddled along a country road toward a paved highway outside their drowsy hometown of Clinton, Ontario, 75 miles west of Toronto...

UK- Exclusive: Freed 'rapist' stabbed in street attack

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 United Kingdom:A MAN convicted of raping a teenager before being freed on appeal has been stabbed and bottled in a street attack.Michael Dyer was left lying in a pool of blood after the assault.He was freed from a five-year jail sentence in February after appeal judges ruled his trial was botched...

Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex - Look and see; is the world ending?

Posted on May 10, 2009
5-10-2009 National:Should everything that is ?wrong? be a crime?Society decides what is right and what is wrong. Society has now decided that consensual sex between adults is wrong. A 28-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man had sex and now she is a sex offender...

How Sleep Sex (and Other Parasomnias) Can Get You in Trouble with the Law

Posted on May 09, 2009
5-8-2009 Global:Many people have so-called parasomnias, or involuntary behaviors?sleepwalking being the best known?that they act out while they're asleep. While it's rare for parasomniacs to get entangled with the law, sometimes they do. Sleep eating or calling a friend while unconscious isn't likely to get someone in legal trouble...

IN- New report on women and mental illness

Posted on May 09, 2009
5-8-2009 Indiana:Major depression nearly twice as likely in womenFor the first 45 of her 50 years of living, Bonnie Neighbour used to wake up feeling sorry to be alive"Even when I wasn't actually depressed, I would open my eyes in the morning and wonder if there wasn't something else; I would have preferred an alternative to being alive," she says...

NJ- Sex offender setback for New Jersey children

Posted on May 09, 2009
It is amazing to see the public in a tailspin over the loss of residency laws. Such laws protected no one, all they did was to force registrants to live elsewhere. If registrants wanted to commit a crime they could do it whether or not residency laws are in effect...

NJ- Megan's Law backers explore options

Posted on May 09, 2009
5-9-2009 New Jersey:WEST WINDSOR -- A day after the New Jersey Supreme Court invalidated municipal laws governing where sex offenders may live, officials, activists and clinicians are looking for other ways to protect children from sexual exploitation...

More States Use GPS to Track Abusers

Posted on May 09, 2009
5-9-2009 National:NEWBURYPORT, Mass. ? When Theresa, a 51-year-old mother of two living near this coastal town, filed for a restraining order against her husband, she thought it would help put an end to the beatings, death threats and stalking that had tormented her family for years...

VA- Powder scare hits Capital One

Posted on May 09, 2009
5-9-2009 Virginia:CHESTERFIELD ? Employees of Capital One in Chesterfield were allowed to go home early after a white powder scare at the office yesterday.According to Chesterfield County Police Lt. Matt Botset, around 1:20 p.m. the county police received a call about an envelope containing an unknown white powder...

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