MA: Judge says sex offender’s right to due process trumps public safety

In a recent ruling, a Superior Court judge said that concerns for public safety cannot trump a sex offender’s right to due process, FOX25 Investigates has learned.

On Aug. 16, Salem Superior Court judge Timothy Feeley, found the Sex Offender Registry Board violated one sex offender’s constitutional right to due process. His status as a level two sex offender was published on the internet on the same day he was classified, before he could file an appeal. Full Article

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Tick tock, people. Don’t rush to accept a tiered system based on a faulty pre-crime evaluation made up to keep you under their thumbs.

We may be awhile more but it’s starting to happen. The judges are starting to speak out. That’s how it always begins, like whistleblowers, it takes those first brave souls. Then the trickle becomes a flood.

People lose their minds when the Constitution gets in the way of their agenda. The judge got the ruling right, required Constitutional protection far outweigh knee-jerk public safety concerns that are ineffective.

For the past couple of weeks it’s so nice to wake to such good findings–feeling better about the current direction of the courts!

So Fox 25 believes subverting the Constitution is good when it creates a false sence of security. That sort of reasoning should have everyone scared.
If they are advocating the overthrow of the Constitution, it is media outlets like this we should fear.

The “good” news about Massachusetts is at least they actually spend time trying figure out how an individual should be classified and said registrant is provided with an opportunity to appeal. In many of the “tiered” states, you classification is automatic and based on the AWA standards ro something similar. Under most of those, there is no way that an adult offender with a minor victim can ever be a Tier 1 registrant.