Then lock them up and throw away the key or amend the constitution.
On 11/6/2010 1:55 AM, Cold Water wrote:
Do you have any idea, any idea at all, what the recidivism rate is
among these animals?
Do the names Jessica Lunsford, Polly Klaas, Samantha Runion, Jennifer
Thompson etc., etc., etc. sound the least bit familiar to you???
I really hope I never become so stupid that I am sitting around
worrying about the rights of these pigs.
CW
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Keith In Tampa
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Uhm.....Call me a Moonbat, but I agree with this judge...
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Travis <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Unbelievable! This goes with the recent one that an illegal
who used someone else's SSN to buy a house, vehicle and to
work did not commit a crime...Ferg
Law restricting where sex offenders can live is
unconstitutional, L.A. judge rules
<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/law-restricting-where-sex-offenders-can-live-unconstitutional-la-judge-rules.html>
November 4, 2010 | 8:07am
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/law-restricting-where-sex-offenders-can-live-unconstitutional-la-judge-rules.html
Saying sex offenders are being forced to choose between prison
and homelessness, a Los Angeles judge issued an opinion this
week blocking enforcement of provisions a state law
restricting how close those offenders can live from parks or
schools.
Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza issued the 10-page ruling
after four registered sex offenders petitioned the court,
arguing that the legislation known as Jessica's Law was
unconstitutional.
He said the court had received about 650 habeas corpus
petitions raising similar legal issues, and that hundreds more
were being prepared by the public defender's and alternate
public defender's offices.
"The court is not a 'potted plant' and need not sit idly by in
the face of immediate, ongoing and significant violations of
parolee constitutional rights," Espinoza wrote.
Proposition 83, which is better known as Jessica's Law and was
overwhelmingly passed by state voters in 2006, imposes strict
residency requirements on sex offenders, including
requirements forbidding them from residing within 2,000 feet
of any public or private school or park where children
regularly gather.
Before the law passed, those residency requirements were
imposed only on offenders whose victims were children.
Civil rights attorneys have argued that provisions of the law
make it impossible for some registered sex offenders to live
in densely populated cities.
Nearly all of San Francisco, for example, is off-limits to sex
offenders because of the number of parks and schools close to
housing. Los Angeles officials also said that there are few
places in the city where sex offenders can find housing that
meets Jessica's Law requirements.
The California Supreme Court ruled in February that registered
sex offenders could challenge residency requirements in the
law if it proves impossible to avoid living near parks and
schools.
State corrections officials said Wednesday that they could not
comment on the specifics of Espinoza's ruling, but said they
would continue to ensure residency restrictions are imposed in
cases where there is a valid reason to continue enforcing them.
"There are other tools that the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation can and will continue to use to further public
safety, including residency restrictions specific to each
offender," said the agency spokesman Luis Patino.
In his opinion, Espinoza cited comments by Los Angeles Police
Chief Charlie Beck that the Jessica's Law restrictions had
resulted in "a marked increase of homeless/transient
registrants." The judge noted that in 2007, there were 30 sex
offenders on active parole in the city of Los Angeles. By
September of this year, that number had jumped to 259.
"Rather than protecting public safety, it appears that the
sharp rise in homelessness rates in sex offenders on active
parole in Los Angeles County actually undermines public
safety." wrote Espinoza, who is the supervising judge of the
Los Angeles County criminal courts. "The evidence presented
suggests that despite lay belief, a sex offender parolee's
residential proximity to a school or park where children
regularly gather does not bear on the parolee's likelihood to
commit a sexual offense against a child."
LAPD officials said they were reviewing the court decision and
had no immediate comment on its specifics.
Last month, in a briefing for the Los Angeles Police
Commission, Det. Diane Webb, who heads a unit responsible for
tracking the whereabouts of sex offenders, said there are
about 5,100 registered sex offenders living in the city.
Of those, about 20%, or approximately 1,020 people, are on
parole for felony crimes and are prohibited by state law from
living near a school or park where children gather, Webb said.
She said that some of the city's sex-offender population has
come to Los Angeles from surrounding cities that have passed
additional sex-offender laws that make it next to impossible
for offenders to find a place to live and push them to look
elsewhere, but that Los Angeles does not have any additional
laws on its books, making it a feasible destination.
-- Andrew Blankstein
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