IN: 20-year-old on sex-offender registry gets leniency

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An Indiana man, who was looking at spending more than two decades on the sexual offender registry for a dating app hookup, got some good news. A judge has resentenced Zach Anderson to two years’ probation — a decision that will keep him off Michigan’s list and possibly off Indiana’s as well.

Anderson was 19 when he had sex with a 14-year-old Michigan girl who had told him she was 17. Even if the sex was consensual and even if the girl did lie about her age, it is not a defense under current sex-offender laws. Full Article

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While i’m extremely happy he’s finally able to get some semblance of his life back, i am a bit worried how one judge can sentence someone so quickly after another judge sentenced him harshly. I wasn’t given this option. Did Zach take a plea deal? I don’t remember him being found guilty by trial. To me, this is a slippery slope that allows others to get re-considered.

I didn’t follow this story in it’s detail, but this bugs me about our justice system. If two judges can see two different outcomes for exactly the same case/circumstance, not just across cases, but same case… then our justice system is broken completely.

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This case received a lot of media attention and I think over 100,000 people signed a petition supporting Zach to include myself. A lot of people are increasingly aware of these useless laws that serve only to promote hate, punish and ostracize.

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