Source: news-journalonline.com 3/28/23
A sex offender acquitted last year of kidnapping and rape charges was found guilty Tuesday of unrelated charges of failing to properly register. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Jason Nicholas Minton, 46, of Orange City, was found guilty of two counts of failure of a sex offender to properly register; each is a third-degree felony punishable by up five years in prison. He was found not guilty of a third count of failure of a sex offender to properly register.
This certainly sounds like vindictive prosecution to me.
He was acquitted on a kidnapped thing and rape charge, so the Sheriff’s Office decided to search back and find a failure-to-register case they could pursue. That is certainly would it appears to be.
Florida, of course.
“”each is a third-degree felony punishable by up five years in prison.”””
even the newspaper got it right, punishable! I still don’t get how they can’t see the registry as punishment! Do people go to prison for speeding tickets? You keep on saying that the registry is not punishment because it is civil. How can the courts not open up their eyes to this? I just don’t get it!?!?!?
Just read this article. I dare the criminal Mike Chitwood or any other law enforcement criminal to even think about trying to do this to me. Dare them. They don’t even have to convict me of anything. All they have to do is arrest me. I dare them.
Scumbags that support the Registries deserve consequences. Do not let them get away with it.
And of course, de-fund big government and their law enforcement criminals in any way possible. Take their resources, make them waste resources, do whatever is possible. It’s war.
“Our communities are safer tonight because a prolific sex offender is off the street. We will not waver in our commitment to protect you and your families.”
Wow. So having an unreported email account makes this guy dangerous? I have no words.