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By Corey Rayburnyung

How Appealing reports that the State of Texas is seeking a rehearing en banc of the Fifth Circuit ruling about the state's sex toy law.  You can read the petition here. The New Hampshire House of Representatives will soon vote on a bill which would bring the state in compliance with the Adam Walsh Act.  The new bill, which would post a sex offender's place of employment or school on an Internet registry, would also keep the state from losing what was thought to be $200,000 in federal law enforcement grants. A South Dakota man, who was recently convicted by a federal jury of firing a gun at a moving vehicle with a woman and three children inside, will be given an extended sentence due to the Adam Walsh Act.  Because an assault on children younger than 18 falls under the Adam Walsh Act, three of the assault convictions carry mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).