A Pennsylvania law that requires juveniles who commit the most serious types of sex crimes to register with police for life is unconstitutional because it breeches the youngsters’ civil rights, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. Full Article
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“Baer wrote that the SORNA requirement is unconstitutional in that it saddles juvenile offenders with an “irrefutable presumption” that they are likely to reoffend and so violates their rights to due process of law.” This irrefutable presumption is the bases for SOR and other SO laws, therefore all of SORNA and SOR are unconsitutional, for all.
I think the term “irrefutable presumption” is going to become an important part of our vocabulary.
Yeah I don’t see any difference when it comes to the constitutional violations of all rso. Hopefully someone with the resources to use this decision will do so.