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Feds Change Course, Upset Judge

By Corey Rayburnyung

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Prosecutors in the Northern District of California would be well advised to not bring charges for failure to register under SORNA, only to drop the charges shortly after extensive briefing on the matter. That does not make for a happy judge. From Law.com: It's never a good idea to make a judge on the brink of a five-month-long death penalty trial think he's wasting his time. Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise Barton learned that lesson this week, when Northern District of California Judge William Alsup ordered her to explain why the government decided to dismiss a sex offender registry prosecution less than two weeks after Alsup had sorted through extensive briefing on the statute's constitutionality. In court Wednesday, Alsup kept his voice low and made sure to describe prosecutors in the office as "excellent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).

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