____ ____, the New York financier, managed to evade federal prosecution a decade ago in a Florida sex case involving dozens of teenage girls, in part by agreeing to register as a sex offender. But for a man with many residences, and many high-powered lawyers, registering as a sex offender was not the blanket penalty it might seem. Full Article
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From the article ““He can give up his New York home if he does not want to come every 90 days,” Justice Ruth Pickholz said.” – Yes, that is just like a Price Club membership.
I have always wondered how this works, with secondary residences. For example, in California, if you spend nights regularly at a secondary residence (like your elderly mother’s house or a vacation house at Big Bear Lake), you are required to report that as a secondary residence. Are you required to register at that jurisdiction’s law enforcement agency in person – within 5 days of your birthday?
The personal reporting requirement under PC 290 already pretty much makes any substantial travel around your birthday impossible. One will never be able to celebrate one’s birthday in Paris or Hawaii with a 3 week trip, with the birthday in the middle. Or take a lengthy Christmas outing.
But does one have to get one’s butt physically into the secondary cop shop within 5 days of one’s birthday? At some point, if one owned enough second residences – so many that one humanly could not get to them all in 10 days, that would, in practical sense, make it a crime to own property for personal use or visit your family on a regular basis.
The Wheels are Coming Off. .
It has been my personal experience that, in CA, everything is negotiable; particularly when it comes to PC 290 deadlines. Most PD have only 1 person doing the work. If you are a very personable person, you can negotiate “registration appointments” with that individual.
I wonder if this man has ever visited this blog. If he was a poor man, his plea deal would stick.
Funny how sex cases overcome process standards when there is ” some other issue afoot. ”
The Judge signing off on the plea must have used the DO J approved standard operating procedure. STATE would have had an opportunity to incorporate other acts in the plea as read ins if jurisdiction was same.
This case is a disaster.