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Riding in the new year on my dead horse –
Retroactive punishment refers to applying a new law or harsher penalty to actions that occurred before the law was enacted, generally prohibited in criminal law by the U.S. Constitution’s *ex post facto clauses to ensure fairness and notice, meaning laws cannot criminalize past legal acts, increase existing punishments, or alter evidence rules to disadvantage the accused after the fact. While generally banned for increasing criminal burdens, laws can sometimes apply retroactively if they reduce penalties or are purely regulatory, but the principle of *ex post facto prevents governments from backward-looking penal oppression. (Felony penalties on liberty? Holy F’n backward penal oppression!)
Key Principles of Ex Post Facto Laws
Definition: Ex post facto is Latin for “after the fact,” referring to laws that retroactively change legal consequences for past actions. Constitutional Prohibition: The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Sections 9 & 10) forbids Congress and states from passing such laws in criminal matters. What’s Prohibited:Making an act a crime that was legal when committed. Increasing the punishment for a crime after it was committed. Changing the rules of evidence to make conviction easier after the fact. (As in forcing one to a second due process hearing for a past offense, where the government fraudulently uses an invalid risk assessment instrument, to intentionally create a false presumption, that it uses to extort money and make legal activity a new crime, to help re-prosecute these for their past offense!)When Retroactive Laws Are Allowed (or Not)
Prohibited: Laws that disadvantage the [accused], such as increasing sentences, penalties, or changing procedure to the accused’s detriment. Permitted: Laws that retroactively lessen the punishment or benefit the accused, or civil laws that aren’t intended as criminal punishment, notes SCOTUSblog and Restore Justice Foundation. Ongoing Violations: Courts have allowed laws to apply if the offense or condition was ongoing when the new law took effect. Why It Matters (Fairness)
The rule ensures people have fair notice of what conduct is criminal and what penalties might apply, preventing arbitrary government power.
Bottom line – All the SORA/SORNA prosecutions are for LEGAL ACTIVITY which means they can only lawfully be enforced as Parole/Probation violations for those under sentence! All other forms of enforcement is the crime of Peonage against the free people of America!
American liberty cannot be converted into a crime for Americans, and yet, they did!
Happy f’n New Year to us!
Tennessee will now have a Domestic Abuser Registry, however one needs two convictions and have it occur after Jan. 1st of this year. Stupidity doesn’t need any volunteers because Nashville has plenty of stupidity in high places.
SUCCESS!! I Fought CDCR and WON!!
I paroled in Feb 2021 and was supposed to have a 3-year parole term but CDCR instituted a 5-year parole term.
In June 2024 I filed a Habeas Corpus Petition challenging CDCR’s jurisdiction after their failure to perform Discharge Reviews pursuant to PC 3001 (et.seq) and challenging the 5-year parole term.
My offenses were between Aug 1, 1999 – Aug 1, 2000 and the statute changed to 5-years on July 18, 2000. But since the Jury did not determine and the defendant did not admit to specific dates, CDCR could not assume that any of the offenses occured within those last two weeks.
The Judge would not address the failure to perform discharge reviews, two cases had already been successful (In re Nesper 1999, In re Torres 2010) and they are both Published and Precedential.
Instead the Judge determined that CDCR’s imposition of the 5-year parole term violated Ex Post Facto protections and ordered CDCR to amend the parole term to 3 years (which I had already completed).
CDCR REFUSED! The Judges order was signed on November 14, 2025, CDCR refused to obey the order and I filed motions with the court that they were in Contempt.
CDCR finally relented and discharged me December 22, 2025. No more Parole, Monitoring, Treatment, etc.
Just goes to show you, stick up for your rights!
Now all I need is to find a qualified Civil Rights Attorney for that Federal §1983 Claim.
So, with the discovery of daycare fraud in MN, there should be some added living areas to the map for PFRs to live in, right? If it is not a real daycare, then there are not real minors there, and, therefore, the residency restricted area should be immediately opened for PFRs to live in without hesitation. Of course, that doesn’t include the other restrictions which are to be considered, but when one considers daycare facilities…you get the point.
Be very careful about the supposed adult AI chats. Some of them are from other countries and the scenarios suggest minors or simulate it. It would be easy to go down the rabbit hole, and the laws are vague, my experience is a DA with an agenda can bend the law anyway they want it.
Over the holidays DHS put out that they want to deport 100 million people. This means they want to deport @ 50,000 citizens born here. I wonder what groups of citizens they want to deport, but I bet people forced to register are one of these groups. (I do not see this happening as I do not see congress giving the hundreds of billions of dollars needed for DHS the money to enact what it wants to do.)
I. Source of Judicial Authority
Under Article III of the U.S. Constitution and the parallel structure of the New York Constitution:
Courts possess only delegated authority. That authority comes from the people. Judges are empowered to interpret, not revise. No branch may alter constitutional meaning absent ratification
Posterity inherits the Constitution as written, including its limits.
Posterity does not inherit authority to redefine those limits.
How have these OUTLAWS gotten away with criminalizing actions or lack of actions that are NOT crimes?
When the legislature creates criminal laws, it changes previously legal activity into a punishable offense for everyone – A FELONY!
How can anyone’s actions today (or lack of) be a felony offense solely because of a past conviction where the same actions were NOT a felony offense, and said actions are STILL not a felony offense for anyone else?
Then claim that the present-tense application of a new felony that only exists for that past conviction is not a new punishment for a past offense?
ANY felony penalty that the legislature creates for a conviction is PUNISHMENT FOR THE OFFENSE!
HECK, the legal definition of [the derogatory label applied by law to people with a sex offense conviction] only exists because of the past conviction! (I’m referring to pre-law convictions with this rant)
The charge is not “failure to register”, the charge is ‘failure to register as [a derogatory label applied by law to people with a sex offense conviction]” for your past conviction!
Civil remedy, my arse! Felony offenses are 100% criminal law and cannot legally be attached to prior convictions!
We must demand emergency relief from the unconstitutional crimes being perpetrated against us!
STOP THE MADNESS! LIVES ARE BEING LOST!
Happy New Year everybody. I hope you all are keeping a strong mind and heart while you’re on the registry. I am. I never attended any NARSOL conferences before, but I have been watching conference lectures on YouTube. The speakers are actually saying very important facts we need to know. We all must keep battling to abolish the registry. There are too many restrictions and it’s a heavy burden on us to register at the police station every year on my birthday and every time I travel out of state or out of the country. I know for sure for myself that I will not harm anybody at all when I go to a park or a school or if I find out that I’m living near a neighbor who has children. Let’s keep standing up and speaking up. All of those restriction against us have got to be decreasing.
CA PFRs can you please remind me which counties are the worst in terms of compliance checks that are a loud, harassing, circus and a registration process that is difficult? I know compliance checks can happen anywhere, but I thought I recall reading Riverside and Orange county LE particularly take joy in being a-holes. Any thoughts on LA County? I would love to live near my younger son in a year or 18 months and would want a safe place for my PFR son – that would be surrounding LA suburbs of Hawthorne, Playa del Rey, Torrance assuming I could afford it. @someone who cares, what county are you in?
How can a civil remedy be applied to people who have no civil rights?
HOW can a felony penalty be imposed against anyone solely because of a past conviction?
Since when is the public safety of some more important than the public safety of others?
Where is the equal protection of the laws for PFR and their families?
How can SCOTUS choose deliberate indifference?
To exploit someone means to unfairly use them for your own selfish gain, taking advantage of their vulnerabilities, labor, or situation for profit, benefit, or advantage, often involving manipulation, coercion, or unethical practices. It’s treating someone unjustly, getting a lot from them while giving little or nothing in return, and can involve abuse, low pay,(or no pay) or forcing them into unwanted acts for personal profit.
Key aspects of exploitation:
In simpler terms:
If someone is exploiting you, they are essentially using you like a tool or resource to get what they want, without regard for your well-being, rights, or fair compensation.
PEONAGE!!!
I am having a hard time today not being depressed after seeing an employee of the federal government murder a citizen for no justifiable reason. Like I stated here earlier, as long as I am a person forced to register (pfr) I am staying away from ICE protests because if found out I am a pfr, I may be arrested and beaten to death while in custody. I have seen a few videos that show some of these ICE agents have NAZI tattoos. As a pfr I do not trust any of those people.
Retroactive punishment refers to applying a new law or harsher penalty to actions that occurred before the law was enacted
SORA legislation IS applying the new law and harsher penalties to prior actions as it makes legal activity a felony offense only for those with that past conviction!
Even where the sentence for that conviction is long since satisfied!
On what planet is a new felony offense only for a past conviction, not extra punishment for that offense?
Civily, WHO is that felony penalty protecting and how?
SCOTUS, have you lost your minds?
What the heck is wrong with everybody that this is even a thing to argue about?
A felony cannot exist solely because of past conduct!
If it’s for a new offense, then that offense MUST BE an offense for EVERYONE, not only for those who had a past conviction!
A felony is a crime! A crime cannot exist only for certain members of the public!
Equal protection demands that if I want to move or drive or travel or communicate or feel safe in my home or sleep over a friends house, I have the same right/liberty to do so that anyone else does, without fear of being arrested and charged for failing to update my actions to the government!
These things can only be parole or probation restrictions for those under a sentence for a crime! NOT FELONY OFFENSES FOR A SELECT GROUP!
How can I be charged with a crime that is not a crime for my neighbor?
SCOTUS!!! WTF are you doing up there!!!
London Metropolitan police is finding that there are many people who abuse their positions of trust and commit sex crimes due to a lack of full vetting according to the story you may find on The Guardian newspaper website.
A recent federal court decision in United States v. McDonald, (Dist. N. Mex, January 6, 2026) delivers an important reminder to people on probation or supervised release: you do not lose your Fifth Amendment rights just because you are in sex offense treatment or required to take polygraph exams!
Anyone who was a class member of Doe v. Pataki and had their redetermination hearing before January 21, 2006 has NOT had due process yet. As such, you are owed due process from your original case. The original SORA in 1996 gave probation and parole officers the duty to dole out risk levels. Doe v. Pataki said you have to have due process. You were sent for a redetermination hearing. Then the legislature changed the law in 2006 and readjudicated you without giving you due process. They effectively nullified the due process you “received” at your redetermination hearing, thus leaving you devoid of your constitutionally guaranteed due process. It’s been over 20 years since then. I expect to be creating a petition for a class action lawsuit. Anyone else on board?
From Pierce County, Washington State, comes the fact a pastor and school teacher (all in one) is convicted of sex crimes against minors last week while in positions of trust. Did the registry assist here to prevent, etc?
Do we have an approximate date for this year’s legislative day in Sacramento? Planning to take time off of work 🙂
SORA criminalizes acts that were legal activities at the time of their offense, and are STILL legal activities for everyone except those who were convicted of a past offense!
When a legislature changes a legal activity into a felony offense because of past convictions, this is the definition of retroactive punishment for that offense.
It is against the law even if the stated purpose is public safety!
A law that puts life in peril and retroactively attaches felony penalties for basic human liberties is unconstitutional, even if the creators of that law claim its stated purpose is as a civil remedy to protect the public!
PFR ARE members of the public owed equal protection under the law that is being used to sacrifice THEIR safety and well-being while creating a revolving door back into prison!
In regards to your lawsuit against CDCR,I was paroled in April of 2021 with a 5 year parole and a registrant. I completed my mandatory group meetings and therapists meetings,in 18 months…..in 2024 and 2025,my Parole Officer recommended early discharge….. Sacramento denied it both times, with no explanations….I will meet my full parole period of 5 years this April and be discharged…( Thank you Janice, for all you do! I’m very grateful!!!)
New York’s statutory definition of a “derogatory label” is any person convicted of a listed offense on or after the act’s effective date of January 21, 1996.
In section 168 g the act clarifies that this definition includes those actively serving a sentence for a listed offense on the act’s effective date.
These are the legislative limits the court must abide by!
The legislature knows that its authority has limitations and acted accordingly when drafting SORA!
However, the courts, legislating from the bench, have invented a “Total Custody Rule” to deliberately ignore the statutory limits of the legislature to unconstitutionally entrap those explicitly excluded from the definition of a “derogatory label”.
The courts, implementing their “total custody Rule” acting against the statutory limit, are extending SORA’s scope to also include people who had satisfied a sentence for a listed offense prior to the act’s effective date if they were still in custody serving a sentence for a non-listed offense.
The court claims they can do this because it’s only a civil act to protect the government’s interest in public safety, and if the legislature doesn’t like it, they must say so, and they haven’t!
WTF!?
THE LEGISLATURE DID SAY SO BY CREATING THE LIMIT IN THEIR DEFINITION AND CLARIFYING THAT DEFINITION AGAIN IN SECTION 168 g!!!
I’m sure the legislature probably likes it, but the point is that legislation was drafted with limits because the legislature knows that its authority has limits!
It is NOT for the courts to reinterpret legislative limits with expansion as its goal.
Its job is to uphold those limits as law!
This is a 100 trillion-dollar lawsuit against the state for every single person who has been harmed by the court’s abuse of its judicial authority!
WHO will save the souls being intentionally sacrificed by New York Courts under the guise of public safety?
Where is the team for this class action?
How can a court get away with claiming the right to reinterpret statutory limits, expanding SORA’s scope to include convictions that the legislature explicitly excluded with an effective date?
It is quite obvious that the legislature is not against this court practice, but the real issue is that the legislation was drafted the way it was because it could not legally attach to something that does not exist!
AKA – no subject matter to operate on!
This is because, like it or not the legislature knows satisfied sentences are out of their reach!
My, my, my, how all of our laws are being transformed into unconstitutional acts right before our eyes!
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SCOTUS decided that applying mandatory restitution to crimes commited before enacting the law violated ex post facto. That could be a good ruling to show registration requirements are punishment, except the ruling quotes Smith v. Doe. https://x.com/i/status/2013629651608908140