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The extra re-entry challenges for sex offenders after the Garrido case

By Douglas A. Berman

The AP has this interesting new article headlined "California case casts harsh spotlight on sex offenders." Here is how it starts: After being locked away for 25 years for sex crimes, Donald Robinson moved to a little block of unassuming homes in this city on the San Francisco Peninsula on Aug. 27. The timing couldn't have been worse. It was the day after Philip Garrido was arrested just 40 miles away on charges that he kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and held her captive for 18 years despite his long criminal record as a sex offender. Police distributed fliers in Robinson's new neighborhood, alerting residents that he was living there. He has been targeted by a protest rally organized by the mayor and daily picketing outside his house...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).